| Smoky Cell | |
|---|---|
| Written by | Edgar Wallace |
| Date premiered | 16 December 1930 |
| Place premiered | Wyndham's Theatre,London |
| Original language | English |
| Genre | Crime Thriller |
| Setting | United States |
Smoky Cell is athriller play by the British writerEdgar Wallace first staged in 1930. In America a group of detectives hunt down a notorious racketeer.
It ran for 103 performances atWyndham's Theatre in theWest End from 16 December 1930 to 14 March 1931. The original cast includedFinlay Currie,Percy Parsons,Charles Farrell,Harold Huth,Roy Emerton andJames Carew, and was directed byCarol Reed. It marked Canadian actorAlexander Knox's London stage debut.[1]
It was an inspired by a visit Wallace had recently made to the United States, which also led him to write his even more successful playOn the Spot the same year.[2] In 1935, following Wallace's death, his former assistant Robert Curtis wrote a novel of the same title based on the play.[3]
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