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The Fortune Hunter
(1927) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels / 6639 feet
Directed by Charles F. Reisner

Cast: Sydney Chaplin [Nat Duncan], Helene Costello [Josie Lockwood], Clara Horton [Betty Graham], Duke Martin [‘Handsome’ Harry West], Thomas Jefferson [Sam Graham], Erville Alderson [Blinky Lockwood], Paul Kruger [Roland], Nora Cecil [Betty Carpenter], Louise Carver [the drygoods store owner], Bob Perry [the sheriff], Babe London [the waitress)

Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated, production; distributed by Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated. / Scenario by Bryan Foy and Robert Dillon, from the play The Fortune Hunter by Winchell Smith. Assistant director, Sandy Roth. Cinematography by Ed Du Par. / © 15 August 1927 by Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated [LP24289]. Released 7 November 1927. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. Western Electric Vitaphone sound-on-disc synchronized sound system. / The play was previously filmed as The Fortune Hunter (1920). / Silent film, with synchronized music and sound effects.

Comedy-Drama.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 23 February 2012.

References: Website-AFI.