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Forty Winks
(1925) American
B&W : Seven reels / 6293 feet
Directed by Frank Urson and Paul Iribe

Cast: Raymond Griffith [Lord Chumley], Theodore Roberts [Adam Butterworth], Cyril Chadwick [Gaspar Le Sage], William Boyd [Lieutenant Gerald Hugh Butterworth], Anna May Wong [Annabelle Wu], Viola Dana [Eleanor Butterworth]

Famous Players-Lasky Corporation production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation. / Scenario by Bertram Millhauser, from the play Lord Chumley by Cecil B. DeMille and David Belasco. Cinematography by Peverell Marley (J. Peverell Marley). / Released 2 February 1925. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format.

Comedy.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F2 n. F2.1930.

Survival Status: The film is presumed lost.

Listing updated: 9 January 2004.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.2596; AFI-F2 n. F2.1930; FilmDaily-1926 pp. 41, 61; Kerr-Silent pp. 300, 313 : Website-IMDb.

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