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Salute
(1929) American
B&W : 86 minutes
Directed by John Ford

Cast: George O’Brien [Cadet John Randall], Helen Chandler [Nancy Wayne], Stepin Fetchit (Lincoln Perry) [‘Smoke Screen’], William Janney [Midshipman Paul Randall], Frank Albertson [Midshipman Albert Edward Price], Joyce Compton [Marion Wilson], Cliff Dempsey [Major General Somers], Lumsden Hare [Rear Admiral Randall], David Butler [navy coach], Rex Bell [cadet], John Breeden [midshipman], Ward Bond [football player], John Wayne [football player]

Fox Film Corporation production; distributed by Fox Film Corporation. / Screenplay by James Kevin McGuinness and John Stone, from a story by Tristram Tupper. Cinematography by Joseph H. August. Intertitles by Wilbur Morse Jr. Edited by Alex Troffey. Presented by William Fox. / Released 1 September 1929. / [?] Movietone 35mm spherical 1.20:1 format and Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format? Western Electric Movietone sound-on-film sound system. / The film was also released in a silent version. / Full-sound film.

Drama.

Survival Status: Print exists in the International Museum of Photography and Film at George Eastman House film archive.

Keywords: Sports: Football - Synchronized sound film

Listing updated: 23 October 2007.

References: Gallagher-Ford pp. 47, 55, 60, 61, 64-69, 103, 123, 146, 265, 287, 465, 481, 498; McGhee-Wayne p. 316; Sinclair-Ford pp. 40, 46-47, 241; Sweeney-Coming p. 143 : with additional information provided by Tag Gallagher.

 
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