A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2024 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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The Gate Crasher
(1928) United States of America
B&W : Six reels / 5597 feet
Directed by William James Craft

Cast: Glenn Tryon [Dick Henshaw], Patsy Ruth Miller [Mara Di Leon], T. Roy Barnes [Hal Reade], Beth Laemmle [the maid], Fred Malatesta [Julio], Claude Payton [Zanfield, the stage manager], Russell Powell (Russ Powell) [Caesar, the actor], Tiny Sanford (Tiny Sandford) [the stage doorman], Al Smith (Albert J. Smith) [Pedro, the waiter], Monte Montague [a crook]

Universal Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Universal Pictures Corporation [A William James Craft Production; It’s a Universal; Universal-Jewel]. / Scenario by Carl Krusada, from an adaptation by Vin Moore of a screen story by Jack Foley (John M. Foley) and William James Craft. Production supervision by Harry L. Decker. Cinematography by Al Jones. Film editor, Charles Craft. Intertitles written by Albert De Mond. Presented by Carl Laemmle. / © 22 August 1928 by Universal Pictures Corporation [LP25561]. Released 9 December 1928. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Silent film.

Comedy-Drama.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 14 July 2023.

References: Drew-Speaking p. 281; Hirschhorn-Universal p. 60 : Website-AFI.