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Is Zat So?
(1927) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels / 6950 feet
Directed by Alfred E. Green

Cast: George O’Brien [Ed Chick Cowan], Edmund Lowe [Hap Hurley], Kathryn Perry [Marie Mestretti], Cyril Chadwick [Robert Parker], Doris Lloyd [Sue Parker], Dione Ellis [Florence Hanley], Richard Maitland [Major Fitz Stanley], Douglas Fairbanks Jr. [G. Clinton Blackburn], Philippe de Lacy [Little Jimmy Parker], Jack Herrick [‘Gas House’ Duffy]

Fox Film Corporation production; distributed by Fox Film Corporation. / Produced by William Fox. Scenario by Philip Klein, from the play Is Zat So? by James Gleason and Richard Taber. Assistant director, Jack Boland. Cinematography by George Schneiderman. Presented by William Fox. / © 15 May 1927 by Fox Film Corporation [LP23997]. Released 15 May 1927. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Silent film.

Comedy.

Synopsis: [The Moving Picture World, 21 May 1927, page 211] Hap, a fight manager, picks up Chick to make a fighter out of him. After losing out they are befriended by Blackburn, a young millionaire, and take the place of servants who have left. After a misunderstanding, Chick wins the championship and he and Hap win the girls of their choice. Chick also proves Blackburn’s brother-in-law to be a crook.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Athletes: Boxers - Millionaires - Sports: Boxing

Listing updated: 10 July 2009.

References: Best-Those p. 56 : Website-AFI.

 
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