The Yellow Mask | |
Director: | Harry Lachman |
Producer: | John Maxwell |
Screenplay: | Val Valentine |
Based On: | play by Edgar Wallace |
Starring: | Lupino Lane Dorothy Seacombe Warwick Ward Wilfred Temple |
Music: | John Reynders |
Cinematography: | Walter Blakeley Claude Friese-Greene |
Editing: | Edward B. Jarvis |
Studio: | British International Pictures |
Distributor: | Wardour Films (UK) |
Runtime: | 76 minutes |
Budget: | $100,000[1] |
Gross: | $300,000 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Language: | English |
The Yellow Mask is a 1930 British musical crime film directed by Harry Lachman and starring Lupino Lane, Dorothy Seacombe and Warwick Ward.[2] A criminal plans to rob the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. It was based on the 1927 Edgar Wallace novel The Traitor's Gate.,[3] adapted into the play The Yellow Mask, which premiered in London in 1928.[4]
Daily Telegraph wrote, "provides an hour's ideal entertainment"; and the Sunday Pictorial called it, "packed with every known ingredient of popularity."[5] The New York Times wrote, "in a prologue to the film it is set forth that Mr. Wallace has attempted a daring and original combination of melodrama and musical comedy in a manner to end all musical melodramas forever. In all likelihood these designations were put upon The Yellow Mask after it had emerged from the studio, in a hasty effort to give this hodge-podge a meaning."[6]