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The Making of O’Malley
(1925) United States of America
B&W : Eight reels / [?] 7496 or 7571? feet
Directed by Lambert Hillyer

Cast: Milton Sills [O’Malley], Dorothy Mackaill [Lucille Thayer], Helen Rowland [Margie], Warner Richmond [Danny the dude], Thomas Carrigan [Herbert Browne], Julia Hurley [Margie’s grandmother], Claude King [Captain Collins], Allen Brander [the doctor], Charles Graham [Sergeant Patterson], Jack De Lacey [clerk], Blanche Craig [the stout dowager], Thomas Wigney Percyval [the lawyer], Charles Craig [the Englishman]

First National Pictures, Incorporated, production; distributed by First National Pictures, Incorporated. / Scenario by Eugene Clifford, from the short story “The Making of O’Malley” by Gerald Beaumont. Production supervision by Earl Hudson. Art direction by Milton Menasco. Cinematography by Roy Carpenter. Editorial direction by Marion Fairfax. Film editor, Arthur Tavares. / © 23 June 1925 by First National Pictures, Incorporated [LP21576]. Released 28 June 1925. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Law: Enforcement: Police: Policemen

Listing updated: 14 October 2008.

References: FilmYearBook-1926 p. 47; Sweeney-Coming p. 89 : Website-AFI.