The Alley Cat (1929 film)

The Alley Cat
Directed byHans Steinhoff
Written byAnthony Carlyle (novel)
Iris North
Produced byGeorg Jacoby
Sidney Morgan
Starring
CinematographyNicolas Farkas
Production
companies
British & Foreign
Orplid-Film
Distributed byMesstro-Orplid
Release date
  • 3 February 1929 (1929-02-03)
Running time
79 minutes
CountriesGermany
United Kingdom
LanguagesSilent
English/German intertitles

The Alley Cat is a 1929 British-German silent drama film directed by Hans Steinhoff and starring Mabel Poulton, Jack Trevor and Clifford McLaglen. The film was made as a co-production between the British company British & Foreign and the German Orplid-Film. Its German title was Nachtgestalten. The film was shot in Britain, partly on location around the Docklands in London. Studio shooting took place at the Grunewald Studios in Berlin.[1] It was based on a novel by Anthony Carlyle.

  1. ^ Passerini, Luisa; Labanyi, Jo; Diehl, Karen, eds. (2012). Europe and Love in Cinema. Chicago: Intellect Books. p. 53. ISBN 978-1-84150-672-2.