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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Cast: Charles Murray [Garrity], Fred Kelsey [Mulligan], Walter Pidgeon [Stevens], Brooks Benedict [the reporter], Syd Crossley [the butler], Alice Day [Alice Townsend], Claude Gillingwater [Cyrus Townsend], Gaston Glass [Marsden], John Gough [the sailor], Aggie Herring [the cook], Tully Marshall [William Townsend], John Kolb [the gorilla]

First National Pictures, Incorporated, production; distributed by First National Pictures, Incorporated [An Alfred Santell Production; A First National Picture; A First National Special]. / Produced by Alfred Santell. Scenario by Alfred A. Cohn and Harry McArthur, from the play The Gorilla by Ralph Spence. Production management by Edward Small. Cinematography by Arthur Edeson. Intertitles written by Al Boasberg and Sidney Lazarus. Presented by Asher, Small and Rogers. / Released 13 November 1927. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / A sound remake was made in 1930. / Silent film.

[?] Drama: Crime?

Survival status: Print exists in the Cineteca Milano film archive.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Crime: Murder - Death: Murder

Listing updated: 2 October 2024.

References: Everson-American p. 189, 220; Everson-Detective p. 30; Marrero-Vintage pp. 24, 30, 49 : Website-IMDb.