Red Pearls

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| director = Walter Forde

| writer = J. Randolph James (novel)
Harry Fowler Mear
Sidney Gilliat

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| music = Paul Mulder

| cinematography = Geoffrey Faithfull

| editing = Culley Forde

| released = {{Film date|1930|02|ref1=Low p.375}}

| runtime = 70 minutes

| country = United Kingdom

| language = Silent
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Red Pearls is a 1930 British silent crime film directed by Walter Forde and starring Lillian Rich, Frank Perfitt and Arthur Pusey. It was made at the Nettlefold Studios in Walton.Wood p.67 It was based on the novel Nearer! Nearer! by J. Randolph James.Goble p.925 The film was produced just as the change to sound films was taking place in Britain.

Premise

A Japanese merchant attempts to drive one of his rivals mad by impersonating a man he had once murdered.

Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.