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Million Dollar Mystery
(1927) American
B&W : Six reels / [?] 5800 or 6022? feet
Directed by Charles J. Hunt

Cast: James Kirkwood (Sr.) [James Norton], Lila Lee [Florence Grey], Henry Sedley [Leo Braine], Erin La Bissoniere [Olga Perigoff], Elmer Dewey [Boris Orloff], Edward Gordon [Alec Felton], John Elliott [Stanley Hargreaves / Inspector Jedson], Ralph Whiting

Trem Carr Productions production; distributed by Rayart Pictures Corporation. / Scenario by Arthur Hoerl, from a screen story by Harold MacGrath. Cinematography by Ernest Depew. / Released August 1927. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / The story was previously filmed as The Million Dollar Mystery (1914). / Silent film.

Drama: Crime.

Synopsis: [Motion Picture News Booking Guide, October 1927, page ?] : Notorious band of crooks pursue former member, now a man of wealth. One of their number falls in love with the man’s daughter. It develops that this man is a member of the Secret Service and he succeeds in bringing the band to justice.

Survival Status: Print exists [16mm reduction positive].

Listing updated: 11 July 2008.

References: Limbacher-Feature p. 160 : Website-AFI.