A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2013 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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Jean Hersholt and Phyllis Haver.     Photograph: Silent Era image collection.

Cast: Jean Hersholt [William J. Judson], Phyllis Haver [Marie Skinner], Belle Bennett [Mrs. Judson], Don Alvarado [Babe Winsor, Marie’s boyfriend], Sally O’Neil [Ruth Judson], William Bakewell [Billy Judson], John Batten [the Judson family friend], Rolfe Sedan, Harry Semels

Art Cinema Corporation production; distributed by United Artists Corporation. / Produced by Joseph M. Schenck. Scenario by Gerrit J. Lloyd, from the novel The Single Standard by Daniel Carson Goodman. Cinematography by Karl Struss + [G.W. Bitzer]. Music by Hugo Riesenfeld and Nathaniel Shilkret. Presented by D.W. Griffith. / © 17 October 1928 by Art Cinema Corporation [LP25734]. World premiere, September 1928 at the United Artists Theatre in Los Angeles, California. Premiered 12 October 1928 at the Rialto Theatre in New York, New York. General release, 13 October 1928. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. [?] Western Electric Movietone sound-on-film sound system? / Soundtrack included one song sung by Phyllis Haver. The novel was previously filmed as The Battle of the Sexes (1914). / Silent film, with synchronized music and sound effects.

Drama.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F2 n. F2.0282.

Survival status: Prints exist in the International Museum of Photography and Film at George Eastman House film archive [35mm nitrate positive, 35mm fine-grain preservation negative, 35mm preservation positive]; [?] the soundtrack is presumed lost (Movietone soundtrack lost, or Vitaphone soundtrack discs)?

Keywords: Synchronized sound film

Listing updated: 9 March 2011.

References: Film credits, film viewing : AFI-F1 n. F1.0236; AFI-F2 n. F2.0282; Bardèche-History p. 285; Barry-Griffith p. 81; Everson-American p. 193; Geduld-Birth pp. 70, 247; LoC-MoPic-2 p. 48 : Website-AFI; Website-GEH; Website-IMDb; Website-NFPF.

Home video: DVD.