The Yellow Mask
Directed by	Harry Lachman
Written by	George Arthurs Harry Lachman (adaptation) Miles Malleson (dialogue) George Arthurs (dialogue) Walter C. Mycroft (adaptation)
Screenplay by	Val Valentine
Based on	play by Edgar Wallace
Produced by	John Maxwell
Starring	Lupino Lane Dorothy Seacombe Warwick Ward Wilfred Temple
Cinematography	Walter Blakeley Claude Friese-Greene
Edited by	Edward B. Jarvis
Music by	John Reynders
Production company	British International Pictures
Distributed by	Wardour Films (UK)
Release date	30 July 1930 (1930-07-30)
Running time	76 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Budget	$100,000[1]
Box office	$300,000[1]

The Yellow Mask is a 1930 British musical crime film directed by Harry Lachman and starring Lupino Lane, Dorothy Seacombe and Warwick Ward.^[2] A criminal plans to rob the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. It was based on the 1927 Edgar Wallace novel The Traitor's Gate.,^[3] adapted into the play The Yellow Mask, which premiered in London in 1928.^[4]

Cast

• Lupino Lane as Sam Slipper
• Dorothy Seacombe as Mary Trayne
• Warwick Ward as Li San
• Haddon Mason as Ralph Carn
• Wilfred Temple as John Carn
• Frank Cochrane as Ah-Song
• Wallace Lupino as Steward
• Bill Shine (actor) as Sunshine
• Winnie Collins as Molly

Reception

Daily Telegraph wrote, "provides an hour's ideal entertainment"; and the Sunday Pictorial called it, "packed with every known ingredient of popularity."^[5] The New York Times wrote, "in a prologue to the film it is set forth that Mr. Wallace has attempted a daring and original combination of melodrama and musical comedy in a manner to end all musical melodramas forever. In all likelihood these designations were put upon The Yellow Mask after it had emerged from the studio, in a hasty effort to give this hodge-podge a meaning."^[6]