Interference is an early sound film drama released in 1928 and starring William Powell

William Powell

William Horatio Powell was an American actor.A major star at MGM, he was paired with Myrna Loy in 14 films, including the popular Thin Man series in which Powell and Loy played Nick and Nora Charles...

 and Evelyn Brent

Evelyn Brent

Evelyn Brent was an American film and stage actress.-Early life:Born Mary Elizabeth Riggs in Tampa, Florida and known as Betty, she was a child of 10 when her mother Eleanor died, leaving her father Arthur to raise her alone...

. This was Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film production and distribution company, located at 5555 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood. Founded in 1912 and currently owned by media conglomerate Viacom, it is America's oldest existing film studio; it is also the last major film studio still...

' first ever full talking movie. It was also simultaneously filmed as a silent. The film was based on the play Interference, a Play in Three Acts by Roland Pertwee

Roland Pertwee

Roland Pertwee was an English playwright, film and television screenwriter, director and actor. He was the father of both Doctor Who star Jon Pertwee and fellow playwright and screenwriter Michael Pertwee...

 and Howard Dearden. When a first husband turns out not to be dead, blackmail leads to murder.

The silentera.com website has stage actress Ruth Chatterton

Ruth Chatterton

Ruth Chatterton was an American actress, novelist, and early aviatrix.- Early life :Chatterton was born in New York City, on Christmas Eve 1892, to Walter Smith and Lillian Reed Chatterton...

 and theatrical impresario Daniel Frohman

Daniel Frohman

Daniel Frohman was a Jewish American theatrical producer and manager, and an early film producer.Frohman was born in Sandusky, Ohio...

 as appearing in this film.

Cast

• William Powell as Philip Voaze
• Evelyn Brent as Deborah Kane
• Clive Brook as Sir John Marlay
• Doris Kenyon
  Doris Kenyon
  Doris Kenyon was a popular actress of motion pictures and television.-Youth:She grew up in Syracuse, New York, where her family had a home at 1805 Harrison Street. Her father, Dr. James B. Kenyon, was a Methodist Episcopal Church minister at University Church. Kenyon studied at Packer College...
  
   as Faith Marlay
• Tom Ricketts
  Tom Ricketts
  Thomas "Tom" Ricketts was an English American silent film actor, director and screenwriter who was involved in almost 350 motion pictures....
  
   as Charles Smith
• Brandon Hurst
  Brandon Hurst
  Brandon Hurst was an English stage and film actor. He studied linguistics in his youth and began playing in theatre in 1880s. He was nearly fifty years old when he acted in his first film Via Wireless as Edward Pnickney in year 1915 and continued acting in the 129 other films until his death 1947...
  
   as Inspector Haynes
• Louis Payne as Childers
• Wilfred Noy
  Wilfred Noy
  Wilfred Noy was an English film director, actor, screenwriter and producer of the silent era. He directed 89 films between 1910 and 1936...
  
   as Dr. Gray
• Donald Stuart as Freddie
• Raymond Lawrence as Reporter
• Clyde Cook
  Clyde Cook
  Dr. Clyde Cook was the former president of Biola University in La Mirada, California.-Life and career:Cook was born on June 1, 1935, in Hong Kong, the fourth of six children, and a third generation missionary. During World War II, his family was imprisoned in three different concentration camps...
  
   as Hearse Driver

uncredited

• Ruth Chatterton
  Ruth Chatterton
  Ruth Chatterton was an American actress, novelist, and early aviatrix.- Early life :Chatterton was born in New York City, on Christmas Eve 1892, to Walter Smith and Lillian Reed Chatterton...
  
  
• Daniel Frohman
  Daniel Frohman
  Daniel Frohman was a Jewish American theatrical producer and manager, and an early film producer.Frohman was born in Sandusky, Ohio...