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 Jazz Age
(1929) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels / 6246 feet
Directed by Lynn Shores

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks Jr. [Steve Maxwell], Marceline Day [Sue Randall], H.B. Walthall (Henry B. Walthall) [Mr. Maxwell], Myrtle Stedman [Mrs. Maxwell], Gertrude Messinger [Marjorie], Joel McCrea [Tod Sayles], William Bechtel [Mr. Sayles], E.J. Ratcliffe [Mr. Randall], Ione Holmes [Ellen McBride], Edgar Dearing [the motor cop]

[?] FBO Pictures Corporation or Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corporation? production; distributed by [?] FBO Pictures Corporation or Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corporation [RKO]? / Scenario by Paul Gangelin, from a screen story by Paul Gangelin. Assistant director, Walter Daniels. Cinematography by Ted Pahle. Film editor, Ann McKnight. Intertitles written by Randolph Bartlett. / © 16 January 1929 by FBO Pictures Corporation [LP21]. Released 10 February 1929. / [?] Photophone 35mm spherical 1.20:1 format and/or Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format? RCA Photophone sound-on-film synchronized sound system. / The film was also released in the USA in a silent version in 1929. / Silent film, with talking sequences, synchronized music and sound effects.

Drama.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Accidents: Automobile - Synchronized sound film

Listing updated: 6 July 2009.

References: ClasIm-301 p. 47 : Website-AFI.