Hangman’s House
(1928) American
B&W : Seven reels / 6430 feet
Directed by John Ford

Cast: Victor McLaglen [Citizen Hogan], June Collyer [Connaught O’Brien], Larry Kent [Dermot McDermot], Earle Foxe [John D’Arcy], Hobart Bosworth [Lord Chief Justice James O’Brien]; Eric Mayne [legionnaire colonel], Joseph Benke [Neddy Joe], Belle Stoddard [Anne McDermot], John Wayne [horse race spectator], Jack Pennick

Fox Film Corporation production; distributed by Fox Film Corporation. / Produced by William Fox. Scenario by Marion Orth + [Willard Mack], from an adaptation by Philip Klein of the novel Hangman’s House by Donn Byrne (Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne). Assistant director, Phil Ford. Photography (cinematography) by George Schneiderman. Titles by (intertitles) by Malcolm Stuart Boylan. Film editor (edited by) Margaret V. Clancey. Presented by William Fox. / © 13 May 1928 by Fox Film Corporation [LP25248]. Released 13 May 1928. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / The production was shot January through February 1928. / Silent film.

Drama.

Survival Status: Print exists in the Museum of Modern Art film archive, and in private collections [16mm reduction positives].

Keywords: Animals: Horses - Arranged marriages - French Foreign Legion - Fugitives - Law: Judges - Races

Listing updated: 8 December 2007.

References: Film credits, film viewing : Everson-American pp. 13, 310, 328, 333; Gallagher-Ford pp. 47, 57, 58, 60, 86, 132, 551; Limbacher-Feature p. 102; McGhee-Wayne pp. 111, 112, 316; Sinclair-Ford pp. 39-40, 239 : Cinemonkey-17 p. 42 : Website-AFI.

Home video: DVD.