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The Commanding Officer
(1915) United States of America
B&W : Four reels
Directed by Allan Dwan

Cast: Alice Dovey [Floyd Bingham], Donald Crisp [Colonel Archer, the commanding officer], Marshal Neilan (Marshall Neilan) [Captain Waring], Douglas Gerrard [Brent Lindsay], Ethel Phillips [‘The Queen’], Russell Bassett [Colonel Bingham], Bob Emmons [the sheriff], Jack Pickford [the commander’s orderly], Francis Carpenter [the little boy], Olive Johnson [the little girl]

Famous Players Film Company production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation. / From the play The Commanding Officer by Theodore Burt Sayre. Presented by Daniel Frohman. / Released 25 March 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 28 May 2011.

References: Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.