The Unwritten Law (1929 film)

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The Unwritten Law
Directed by Sinclair Hill
Written byViolet Heckstall-Smith
StarringRosalinde Fuller
Ian Swinley
Cinematography Arpad Viragh
Production
company
British Sound Film Productions
Distributed byBritish Independent Exhibitors' Distributors
Release date
June 1929
Running time
29 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

The Unwritten Law is a 1929 British short crime film directed by Sinclair Hill, and made at Wembley Studios in the De Forest Phonofilm sound-on-film system. [1]

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