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The Fighting American
(1924) American
B&W : Six reels / 5251 feet
Directed by Tom Forman

Cast: Pat O’Malley [Bill Pendleton], Mary Astor [Mary O’Mallory], Raymond Hatton [Danny Daynes] [?] [and Po-Hsing-Chien]?, Warner Oland [Fu Shing], Edwin J. Brady [Quig Morley], Taylor Carroll [W.F. Pendleton], Clarence Geldert [William A. Pendleton], Alfred Fisher [Mr. O’Mallory], Jack Byron [Alfred Rutland], James Wang [Lee Yong], Emmett King [the college professor], Jane Starr [Lizzie], Frank Kingsley [Harry March]

Universal Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Universal Pictures Corporation [Universal-Jewel]. / Executive producer, Carl Laemmle (Sr.). Scenario by Harvey Gates, from an adaptation by Raymond L. Schrock of a screen story by William Elwell Oliver. Cinematography by Harry Perry. Presented by Carl Laemmle (Sr.). / © 23 May 1924 by UNI [LP20236]. Released [?] 26 May or 23 June? 1924. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format.

Comedy: Romance.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in Hirschhorn-Universal p. 45.

Survival Status: Prints exist in private film collections [16mm reduction positives, 8mm reduction positives].

Keywords: China - Colleges: College students - Rescues

Listing updated: 11 November 2009.

References: Hirschhorn-Universal p. 45; Limbacher-Feature p. 79 : ClasIm-302 p. 12 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.

Home video: VHS.