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Old Ironsides
(1926) United States of America
B&W : 12 reels
Directed by James Cruze

Cast: Charles Farrell [the boy], Esther Ralston [the girl], Wallace Beery [the boatswain], George Bancroft [the gunner], Johnnie Walker [Stephen Decatur], Charles Hill Mailes (Charles H. Mailes) [Commodore Preble], Eddie Fetherston [Lieutenant Richard Somers], George Godfrey [the cook]; Guy Oliver [the first mate], Fred L. Kohler (Fred Kohler) [the second mate], Nick de Ruiz [the bashaw], Effie Ellsler [the girl’s mother], Mitchell Lewis [the pirate chief], Frank Jonasson [a pirate captain], Frank Bonner [a pirate captain], Duke Kahanamoku [a pirate captain], Boris Karloff [a pirate aboard the Esther], Spec O’Donnell [the enthusiastic boy aboard the Constitution], Richard Alexander, William Bakewell, William Conklin, Jack Herrick, Tetsu Komai, Arthur Ludwig, Edgar ‘Blue’ Washington, Gary Cooper [extra], Richard Arlen [extra]

Famous Players-Lasky Corporation production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation [A James Cruze Production; A Paramount Picture]. / Associate producer, B.P. Schulberg. Scenario by Harry Carr and Walter Woods + [Dorothy Arzner], from a screen story by Laurence Stallings. Assistant director, Harold Schwartz. Photographed (cinematography) by Alfred Gilks + [Charles Boyle]. Special effects by Roy Pomeroy. Film editor, [?] Dorothy Arzner? Titles (intertitles written) by Rupert Hughes. Music score arranged by Hugo Riesenfeld and J.S. Zamecnik. Presented by Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky. / Released 6 December 1926. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Two sequences were shot for Magnascope process projection. The film was edited down to eight reels and rereleased on 3 March 1928 as a Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation production by Paramount Pictures Corporation.

Drama.

Survival status: Prints exist in the Library of Congress film archive [35mm acetate duplicate negative]; in the George Eastman Museum film archive; in the Museum of Modern Art film archive; in the Gosfilmofond film archive; and in the Cinematheque Royale de Belgique film archive.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Negroes - Pirates - Ships - Water: Oceans

Listing updated: 24 January 2024.

References: Film credits, film viewing : Bohn-Light pp. 92, 241; Brownlow-Parade p. 296; Drew-Speaking pp. 187, 199-201, 284; Everson-American p. 14; Katchmer-Eighty p. 12; Nollen-Karloff p. 33; Pitts-Hollywood p. 225; Slide-Aspects p. 68; Tarbox-Lost p. 171; Vermilye-Twenties pp. 152-154, 249; Wakeman-World p. 4 : Documentary-Slide : Website-ASFFDb.

Home video: Blu-ray Disc, DVD.

 
 
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