The Black Watch
(1929) American
B&W : Six reels
Directed by John Ford

Cast: Victor McLaglen [Captain Donald King], Myrna Loy [Yasmani], Roy D’Arcy [Rewa Ghunga], David Rollins [Lieutenant Malcolm King], Mitchell Lewis [Mohammed Kahn], Walter Long [Harem Bey], Francis Ford [Major MacGregor], Cyril Chadwick [Major Twynes], Pat Somerset [highlanders’ officer], David Percy [highlanders’ officer], Lundsden Hare [colonel], David Torrence [Marechal], Claude King, Frederick Sullivan, Joseph Diskay, Joyzelle, Richard Travers

Fox Film Corporation production; distributed by Fox Film Corporation. / Scenario by John Stone and James Kevin McGuinness, from the novel King of the Khyber Rifles by Talbot Mundy. Dialog direction by Lumsden Hare. Cinematography by Joseph H. August. Edited by Alex Troffey. / [?] Movietone 35mm spherical 1.20:1 format and Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format? Western Electric Movietone sound-on-film sound system. / Ford’s first talking feature. / Full-sound film.

[?] Drama?

Survival Status: Print exists.

Keywords: Synchronized sound film

Listing updated: 23 October 2007.

References: Gallagher-Ford pp. 31, 47, 55, 60, 61, 64, 68, 70, 72, 86, 105, 123, 207, 287, 465, 498; Sinclair-Ford pp. 40, 43, 59, 240-241; Sweeney-Coming p. 146: ClasIm-225 p. C8.