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The Wrecker is a film of genre Drama directed by Géza von Bolváry with Carlyle Blackwell

The Wrecker (1929)

The Wrecker
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Length 1h14
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Genres Drama,    Crime
Rating67% 3.3739253.3739253.3739253.3739253.373925

The Wrecker (German: Der Würger) is a 1929 British-German silent crime film directed by Géza von Bolváry and starring Carlyle Blackwell, Joseph Striker and Benita Hume. The film was based on the play of the same title by Arnold Ridley. It was produced by Michael Balcon for Gainsborough Pictures in a co-production with the German firm Felsom Film.

Synopsis

A criminal referred to by the press as "The Wrecker" is orchestrating accidents on Britain's railways. One such accident occurs on the (fictional) United Coast Lines Railway, whose train is carrying Roger Doyle (Joseph Striker), who has retired from Cricket to work on the railway. Roger survives, and reports the accident to his uncle, Sir Gerald Bartlett (Winter Hall), the managing director of the railway, and his assistant, the sly Ambrose Barney (Carlyle Blackwell). Unbeknownst to them, Ambrose is The Wrecker, and is also the head of the Kyle Motor-Coach Company, whose buses are introduced on services where The Wrecker has struck, hoping to frighten passengers off of the trains and onto buses. When Sir Gerald becomes suspicious of Ambrose following yet another accident, he is shot dead.

Actors

Carlyle Blackwell

(Ambrose Barney)Benita Hume

(Mary Shelton)Winter Hall

(Sir Gerald Bartlett)Gordon Harker

(William)
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