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Stan Laurel (left), S.D. Wilcox and Oliver Hardy.
Photograph: Silent Era image collection.
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Berth Marks
(1929) United States of America
B&W : Two reels
Directed by Lewis R. Foster
Cast: Stan Laurel [Stan], Oliver Hardy [Ollie, the manager of the act], Pat Harmon [the stationmaster], John M. O’Brien [the man who stumbles over Stan’s instrument], Sammy Brooks [the short train passenger], S.D. Wilcox [the train conductor], [?] ? [the man whose straw hat was crushed], Eleanor Fredericks [the surprised lady in the lower berth], Charlie Hall [the train passenger who first rips another passenger’s suit], Harry Bernard [the first suit ripping victim], Baldwin Cooke [the second suit ripping victim], [?] Matthew Tijuana Jones or Hayes E. Robertson? [the train porter], [?] Paulette Goddard? [a train passenger]
Hal Roach Studios, Incorporated, production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation [A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer All Talking Picture]. / Produced by Hal Roach. From a screen story by Leo McCarey. Story editor, H.M. Walker. Properties by Thomas Benton Roberts. Photographed (cinematography) by Len Powers. Sound recording by Elmer Raguse. Film editor, Richard Currier (Richard C. Currier). Intertitles written by H.M. Walker. Presented by Hal Roach. / © 9 December 1929 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation [LP891]. Released 1 June 1929. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The production was shot 15-19, 22 and 24 April 1929. Working titles: In Vaudeville and Berth Control. [?] According to Maltin-Selected p. 51, Paulette Goddard may have worked on this film as an extra. The film was also released in a silent version in 1929, with alternate intertitles. The film was rereleased in the USA by Hal Roach Studios, Incorporated, in 1936 with new music and sound effects added. / Full-sound film.
Comedy.
Survival status: Print exists in the UCLA Film and Television Archive film archive [35mm preservation print (of the original sound version of the film)]; also in private film collections [8mm reduction positives (Blackhawk Films edition)].
Current rights holder: (unknown)
Keywords: Synchronized sound film - Railroads: Trains
Listing updated: 28 December 2022.
References: Film credits, film viewing : Maltin-Selected p. 51; Skretvedt-Magic pp. 163-164, 165, 166, 200, 406 : Website-IMDb : with additional information provided by Randy Skretvedt.
Home video: Blu-ray Disc, DVD.
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