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Blackbirds
Also known as {Black Birds}
(1915) American
B&W : Five reels
Directed by J.P. McGowan

Cast: Laura Hope Crews, Thomas Meighan, George Gebhardt, Raymond Hatton, Jane Wolf, Florence Dagmar, Evelyn Desmond, Ed Hartley, Frederick Wilson

Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company, Incorporated, production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation. / Scenario by Margaret Turnbull, from the play Blackbirds by Harry James Smith. Art direction by Wilfred Buckland. Cinematography by Charles Rosher. Presented by Jesse L. Lasky, by arrangement with Morris Gest. / © 23 September 1915 by Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company, Incorporated [LU6443]. Released 14 October 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format.

Drama: Crime.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.0366.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain.

Listing updated: 15 January 2004.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.0366; Tarbox-Lost p. 245.