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The Sphinx is a american film of genre Drama directed by Wilfred Lucas released in USA on 1 june 1933 with Lionel Atwill

The Sphinx (1933)

The Sphinx
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Released in USA 1 june 1933
Length 1h4
Directed by ,    
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Thriller,    Crime
Rating56% 2.801752.801752.801752.801752.80175

The Sphinx is a 1933 American Pre-Code mystery drama film directed by Phil Rosen. The film was remade by William Beaudine as Phantom Killer in 1942.

Synopsis

A man comes out of the office of "Garfield Investment Company". He meets the janitor in the stairs and asks him for a match, and then what time it is. "It's nine" the Italian-American janitor Luigi Bacciagalupi (Luis Alberni) answers and wants to know from which apartment he came out. The man leaves without answering. Short after the janitor finds a dead man in the office of "Garfield Investment Company". Newspaperman Burton (Theodore Newton) from the Chronicle is there to talk with the inspector. Before he can see him he talks with the watching police officer and after a while he realizes that the Garfield Investment Company just that morning went bankrupty. "Another broker went down the flush". The janitor recognizes on the police-records the man that came out from the office, Mr. Breed. During the trial he sticks to what he has seen and what he has heard, though two different doctors testify that Mr. Breed is deaf and mute since birth.

Actors

Lionel Atwill

(Jerome Breen)Paul Hurst

(Detective Terrence Aloysius Hogan)Sheila Terry

(Jerry Crane)Robert Ellis

(Inspector James Riley)Theodore Newton

(Jack Burton)
And :
Wilfred Lucas
Luis Alberni
Lucien Prival
Lillian Leighton
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