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Lon Chaney (left), Renée Adorée and Owen
Moore.
Photograph: Silent Era low-res collection. |
The Black Bird
Also known as {The Blackbird}
(1926) American
B&W : Seven reels / 6688 feet
Directed by Tod Browning
Cast: Lon Chaney [Dan Tate (The Black Bird) and the Bishop of Limehouse], Renée Adorée [Fifi Lorraine], Owen Moore [Bertram P. Gladye, alias ‘West End Bertie’], Doris Lloyd [‘Limehouse Polly’], Andy MacLennan [Ghost], William Weston [Red], Eric Mayne [sightseer], Sidney Bracey [Bertie’s first henchman], Ernie S. Adams [Bertie’s second henchman], Cecil Holland [old man at mission], Louise Emmons [old lady at mission], Eddie Sturgis [bartender], Polly Moran [flower woman], Frank Norcross [English music-hall announcer], Willie Fung [Chinese man], Lionel Belmore, James T. Mack, Peggy Best
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation. / Scenario by Waldemar Young, from a screen story by Tod Browning. Production design by Cedric Gibbons and A. Arnold Gillespie. Costume design by Kathleen Kay and Maude Marsh (André-Ani). Cinematography by Percy Hilburn. Intertitles by Joseph W. Farnham. Edited by Errol Taggart. Presented by Louis B. Mayer. / © 29 January 1926 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation [LP22381]. Released 10 January 1926. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / Working title: The Mocking Bird. Principal photography was shot from 29 October 1925 through 28 November 1925.
Drama.
Survival Status: Print exists [16mm reduction positive].
Keywords: Chinese - Criminals - Cripples - Crutches
Listing updated: 2 April 2009.
References: Eames-MGM p. 23; Kobal-Fifty p. 36; Lahue-Gentlemen p. 49; Limbacher-Feature p. 24; McCaffrey-Guide p. 19; Skal-Browning pp. 293-294; Weaver-Twenty p. 77.
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