A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2024 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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	Alice Day and Reginald Denny. Photograph: Silent Era image collection.

Cast: Reginald Denny [Darrow], Alice Day [Buddy Long], Charles Byer [George], Thomas Ricketts [Colonel Long], De Witt Jennings (DeWitt Jennings) [Judge O’Brien], Fritzi Ridgeway [Slavey], Hector V. Sarno [the Italian father]

Universal Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Universal Pictures Corporation [Universal-Jewel]. / Screenplay by Gladys Lehman, Matt Taylor, from the adaptation by Faith Thomas of a screen story by Gladys Lehman. Cinematography by Arthur Todd. Film editors, Ray Curtiss and Jack English. Intertitles written by Albert DeMond. Presented by Carl Laemmle. / © 1 December 1928 by Universal Pictures Corporation [LP25891]. Released 27 January 1929. / [?] Movietone 35mm spherical 1.20:1 format and/or Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format? Western Electric Movietone sound-on-film synchronized sound system. / The film was also released in the USA in a silent version in seven reels (at 6288 feet) by Universal Pictures Corporation in 1929. / Silent film, with talking sequences, synchronized music and sound effects.

Comedy.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in Hirschhorn-Universal p. 64.

Survival status: Public domain [USA].

Current rights holder: (unknown)

Keywords: Law: Arrests, Enforcement (Policemen) - Synchronized sound film

Listing updated: 12 November 2009.

References: Hirschhorn-Universal p. 64 : Website-AFI.