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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	James Murray (left), director John Stahl and Helene Costello. Photograph: Silent Era image collection.

Cast: James Murray [Jimmy Brierly], Helene Costello [Nancy Holden], Wesley Barry [‘Skippy’ Lowry], Dorothy Cumming [Mrs. Brierly], Edward Martindel [Mr. Brierly], Harvey Clark [Dan Lowry], Stepin Fetchit [Highpockets], Carolynne Snowden [Lily May], Nick Cogley [Uncle Bible], Dean Harrell, Mildred Washington, Sergeant Jiggs the dog

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation. / Scenario by A.P. Younger and Lew Lipton, from an adaptation by A.P. Younger of the play In Old Kentucky by C.T. Dazey (Charles T. Dazey). Art direction by Cedric Gibbons and Ernst Fegté. Costume design by Gilbert Clark. Assistant director, David Friedman. Cinematography by Max Fabian. Film editors, Margaret Booth and Basil Wrangell. Intertitles written by Marian Ainslee and Ruth Cummings. / Released 20 November 1927. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Stepin Fetchit’s (Lincoln Perry’s) film debut. The play was previously filmed as In Old Kentucky (1919). / Silent film.

Drama.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: African-Americans - Animals: Horses - USA: Kentucky

Listing updated: 8 October 2022.

References: Eames-MGM p. 40; Gallagher-Ford p. 67; Null-Black p. 27 : Website-IMDb.