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The Clue of the New Pin
The Clue of the New Pin
Directed by	Arthur Maude
Written by	Edgar Wallace (novel) ; Kathleen Hayden
Produced by	S.W. Smith
Starring	Benita Hume ; Kim Peacock ; Donald Calthrop ; John Gielgud
Cinematography	Horace Wheddon
Production; company	British Lion Film Corporation
Distributed by	Producers Distributing Corporation
Release date	March 1929;
Running time	7,292 feet
Country	United Kingdom
Languages	Sound (All-Talking); English

The Clue of the New Pin is a 1929 all-talking sound British crime film directed by Arthur Maude and starring Benita Hume, Kim Peacock, and Donald Calthrop. The soundtrack was recorded using the British Phototone sound-on-disc system. It was made at Beaconsfield Studios. This film is important historically as being Britain's first all-talking feature film produced entirely in Britain. The first all-talking British feature production, a film entitled Black Waters, had been produced in the United States due to a lack of sound recording equipment in Britain.

The film was one of only 10 filmed in British Phototone, a sound-on-disc system which used 12-inch discs. All of the other nine films made in this process were short films.^[2] In March 1929, this film and The Crimson Circle, filmed in the De Forest Phonofilm sound-on-film system, were 'trade-shown' to cinema exhibitors.^[3]

This film is an adaptation of the 1923 novel The Clue of the New Pin by Edgar Wallace. It was later remade in 1961.