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

Cast: Viola Dana [Eleanor Butterworth], Raymond Griffith [Lord Chumley], Theodore Roberts [Adam Butterworth], Cyril Chadwick [Gaspar Le Sage], Anna May Wong [Annabelle Wu], William Boyd [Lieutenant Gerald Hugh 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). Presented by Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky / © 3 February 1925 by Famous Players-Lasky Corporation [LP21097]. Released 2 February 1925. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / The play was previously filmed as Lord Chumley (1914).

Comedy-Drama.

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

Survival Status: The film is presumed lost.

Listing updated: 2 August 2009.

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

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