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Checkers
Also known as チェッカース in Japan
(1919) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels
Directed by Richard Stanton
Cast: Thomas J. Carrigan (Thomas Carrigan) [Checkers], Jean Acker [Pert Barlow], Ellenn Cassity (Ellen Cassidy) [Alva Romaine], Robert Elliott [Kendal], Tammany Young [Push Miller], Bertram Marburgh [Judge Marlow], Edward Sedgwick [Pete], Peggy Worth [Sadie Martin], Frank Beamish [Colonel Warren], Freeman Barnes [Sam Wah], Gene Bucus [Chinese], Juliet Crane [a girl of the slums], Anna Neilson [a hag], Dorothy Orth [the ballet dancer], Mathew Betz, Charles Fang, Julien Beaubien, Buck Black, Old Rosebud the horse
Fox Film Corporation production; distributed by Fox Film Corporation. / Scenario by Adrian Johnson, from the play adaptation Checkers: A Hard Luck Story by Henry Martyn Blossom Jr. of the novel Checkers: A Hard Luck Story by Henry Martyn Blossom Jr. Cinematography by Harry G. Plimpton (Horace G. Plympton). Insert and intertitles cinematography by Richard W. Maedler. Presented by William Fox. / © 24 August 1919 by William Fox [LP14134]. Released 21 August 1919. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Studio production occured at the Fox studios in Fort Lee, New Jersey. Some location photography was taken at Jamaica Bay, Long Island, New York; Belmont Park, New York; the Havre de Grace racetrack in Maryland; and Churchill Downs racetrack in Louisville, Kentucky. The novel was previously filmed as Checkers (1913).
Drama.
Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.0657.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: African-Americans - Animals: Horses - Blackface - USA: Kentucky: Louisville: Churchill Downs - USA: Maryland - USA: New York: Belmont Park - USA: New York: Long Island: Jamaica Bay
Listing updated: 8 October 2022.
References: AFI-F1 n. F1.0657; Weaver-Twenty p. 27 : Website-IMDb.
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