Night Birds (film)

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Night Birds
Directed by Richard Eichberg
Written by
Produced byRichard Eichberg
Starring
Cinematography
Music by John Reynders
Production
companies
Distributed by Wardour Films (UK)
Release date
  • 16 October 1930 (1930-10-16)
Running time
97 minutes
Countries
  • Weimar Republic
  • United Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Night Birds is a 1930 British-German thriller film directed by Richard Eichberg and starring Jack Raine, Muriel Angelus and Jameson Thomas. [1] A separate German language version, The Copper , was made at the same time.

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References

  1. "BFI Database entry". Archived from the original on 21 October 2012. Retrieved 4 September 2010.