High Treason (1930)
Note: this print runs 67 minutes against a recorded 95 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.
With Jameson Thomas, Benita Hume, Basil Gill, Raymond Massey
Directed by Maurice Elvey
High Treason is a 1929 British film based on a play by Noel Pemberton Billing. It was directed by Maurice Elvey, and stars James Carew, Humberstone Wright, Benita Hume, Henry Vibart, Hayford Hobbs, Irene Rooke, and Jameson Thomas. Raymond Massey makes his first screen appearance in a small role. The film was initially produced as a silent but mid-way during production, Elvey was pushed by the studio to add sound to the film in order to cash in on the talkies. The sound version was prepared in collaboration with Tiffany Pictures and this version was copyrighted by them in 1930 in the United States and never renewed making the sound version public domain in the United States. Tiffany Pictures
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