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Four Walls
(1928) American
B&W : Seven reels / 6620 feet
Directed by William Nigh

Cast: John Gilbert [Benny], Joan Crawford [Freida], Vera Gordon [Mrs. Horowitz], Carmel Myers [Bertha], Robert Emmet O’Connor [Sullivan], Louis Natheaux [Monk], Jack Byron [Duke Roma]

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation. / Scenario by Alice D.G. Miller, from the play Four Walls by Dana Burnet and George Abbott. Set design by Cedric Gibbons. Costume design by David Cox. Cinematography by James Howe (James Wong Howe). Intertitles by Joe Farnham (Joseph Farnham). Edited by Harry Reynolds. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / Silent film.

Drama.

Survival Status: (unknown)

Keywords: Crime: Murder - Criminals: Gangs, Gangsters - Death: Murder - Falls - Prison - Prisoners - Reformation

Listing updated: 5 March 2007.

References: Parish-Gangster p. 143; Quirk-Crawford pp. 15, 62, 63; Weaver-Twenty p. 143 : ClasIm-221 p. 14.

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