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Directed by | Fred Sauer |
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Based on | The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
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Cinematography | A.O. Weitzenberg |
Production company | Orplid-Film |
Distributed by | Messtro-Film |
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Running time | 76 minutes |
Country | Germany |
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The Secret Adversary or Adventures Inc. (German: Die Abenteurer G.m.b.H.) is a 1929 German silent mystery film directed by Fred Sauer and starring Carlo Aldini, Hilda Bayley and Eve Gray. [1] It is an adaptation of the British writer Agatha Christie's 1922 novel The Secret Adversary . [2] It was shot at the Grunewald Studios in Berlin and location shooting around the city and the English port of Southampton. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Leopold Blonder and Franz Schroedter. [3]
The Secret Adversary is the second published detective fiction novel by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in January 1922 in the United Kingdom by The Bodley Head and in the United States by Dodd, Mead and Company later in that same year. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the US edition at $1.75.
Fred Sauer was an Austrian actor, film director and screenwriter.
Eve Gray was an English film actress.
Hilda Christabel Bailey was a British theatre and film actress. On stage from 1913, she was in both stage and film versions of Carnival in 1918 and 1921, respectively; and in the controversial crime film Cocaine in 1922.
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