Conspiracy
About Conspiracy
After their father is killed, Margaret and Victor Holt set out to wreck the drug ring responsible. Victor becomes a lawyer in the district attorney's office. Margaret gets hired as secretary to James Morton, who runs the ring. When Morton learns who she is, he lays a trap for Victor. Margaret kills Morton trying to save her brother and flees, believing Victor dead. In hiding she meets mystery writer Winthrop Clavering and reporter John Howell. They find that Victor is a prisoner, not a corpse. He is freed, and Margaret and John pair off.
Cast & crew
More about Conspiracy
Christy Cabanne directed. Beulah Marie Dix adapted the 1912 play The Conspiracy by Robert B. Baker and John Emerson. William LeBaron produced for RKO. Nicholas Musuraca photographed it. Roy Webb wrote the music. Released in the United States on 10 August 1930. This is the second film of the play. Famous Players had made a silent version in 1914.
Themes
Background
A pre-Code crime picture from RKO's first years, with a woman inside a narcotics office rather than a detective agency.
Look
Nicholas Musuraca photographed the film.
Music
Roy Webb composed the music.
Preservation
Preserved at the Library of Congress. U.S. copyright was not renewed and lapsed in 1958.
Notes
- Bessie Love plays Margaret Holt. Ned Sparks plays Winthrop Clavering. Hugh Trevor plays John Howell.
- Otto Matieson plays James Morton. Bert Moorhouse plays Victor Holt.
- The copyright was not renewed, so the film entered the U.S. public domain in 1958.
- A print is at the Library of Congress.
- The 1914 silent, also called The Conspiracy, is the earlier adaptation.
Scenes
- Margaret kills Morton in the fight to reach Victor, then runs because she thinks her brother is dead.
- Clavering and Howell discover Victor is being held, and the ring's story collapses.
Influenced by
- The Conspiracy (Robert B. Baker and John Emerson play, 1912)
Also available
- Internet Archive (Corspiracy)
