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The Ware Case
(1928) England
B&W : Eight reels / 7689 feet
Directed by H. Manning Haynes

Cast: Stewart Rome [Sir Hubert Ware], Betty Carter [Lady Magda Ware], Ian Fleming [Michael Adye], Cameron Carr [Inspector Watkins], Cynthia Murtagh [Celia Gurney], Patrick Ludlow [Eustace Ede], Wellington Briggs [Sir Henry Egerton], Patrick Stewart [Marston Gurney], Syd Ellery [Tommy Bold], John Valentine [the attorney general]

[?] Film Manufacturing Company? production; distributed by First National Film Distributors [UK]. / Scenario by Lydia Hayward, from a play by George Pleydell Bancroft. / Released May 1928. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was released in the USA by First National Pictures, Incorporated, on 26 December 1928. The film was released in Japan on 29 August 1929. / Silent film.

Drama.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: (unknown) [England]; Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 22 November 2010.

References: Pohle-Holmes p. ? : Website-IMDb.