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The Crooked Circle is a american film of genre Comedy directed by H. Bruce Humberstone released in USA on 25 september 1932 with Zasu Pitts
The Crooked Circle (1932)
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Add to a movie listThe Crooked Circle is a 1932 American Pre-Code film, a comedy-mystery directed by H. Bruce Humberstone.
In 1933, The Crooked Circle was the first feature film shown on television. In Los Angeles, the Don Lee Broadcasting System showed the film on March 10, 1933 over their experimental station W6XAO, transmitting an 80-line resolution mechanical television picture to a half-dozen or fewer receiving sets in the greater Los Angeles area. The film was shown again on June 18, 1940 on the NBC Television experimental station WX2BS, now WNBC-TV in New York City.
Actors
Zasu Pitts
(Nora Rafferty)
James Gleason
(Arthur Crimmer)
Ben Lyon
(Brand Osborne)
Raymond Hatton
(Harmon (The Hermit))
Irene Purcell
(Thelma Parker)
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