A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2013 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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Buster Keaton (forward).     Frame enlargement: Silent Era image collection.

Cast: Buster Keaton [James Shannon], T. Roy Barnes [William Meekin, his business partner], Snitz Edwards [the lawyer], Ruth Dwyer [Mary Jones, Jimmie’s girl], Frankie Raymond [her mother], Erwin Connelly [the clergyman], Jules Cowles [the hired man]; Eugenia Gilbert [the first chance], Doris Dean [the second chance], Judy King [the third chance], Hazel Deane [the fourth chance], [?] Bartine Burkett? [the fifth chance], Connie Evans [the sixth chance], Pauline Taller (Pauline Toler) [the seventh chance], Loro Bara, Marion Harlan, Eugénie Burkette, Edna Hammon, Barbara Pierce, Jean Arthur, Rosalind Mooney, [?] ? [the hat check girl], [?] ? [‘Miss Smith,’ the country club switchboard operator], Jean Havez [the man at the office building stairs]

Buster Keaton Productions, Incorporated, production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn Distributing Corporation. / Produced by Joseph M. Schenck. Screen version (scenario) by Clyde Bruckman, Jean Havez and Joseph Mitchell, from the play Seven Chances by Roi Cooper Magrue. Art direction by Fred Gabourie. Electrician, Denver Harmon. Photography (cinematography) by Elgin Lessley and Byron Houck. Presented by Joseph M. Schenck. / © 22 April 1925 by Buster Keaton Productions, Incorporated [LP21376]. Released 16 March 1925. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. Technicolor two-strip color process sequences. [?] FilmDaily-1926 p. 53 lists the release date as 22 March 1925.

Comedy.

Survival status: Print exists (Raymond Rohauer collection).

Current rights holder: Cohen Film Collection LLC.

Keywords: African-Americans - Animals: Horses - Blackface - Churches - Color cinematography - Country clubs - Inheritances - Licenses (Marriage) - Marriages - Newspapers - Provisions - Stockbrokers - Tickets (Train) - Wills

Listing updated: 2 January 2012.

References: Film credits, film viewing : Brownlow-Parade p. 487; Dardis-Keaton pp. 114, 115, 122, 124-126, 133, 144, 291; Eames-MGM p. 21; Everson-American pp. 271, 273, 280; Fell-History p. 96; FilmDaily-1926 p. 53; Kerr-Silent pp. 37, 212, 217, 218, 225, 229, 234, 235, 236, 240, 293; Limbacher-Feature p. 218; McGhee-Wayne p. 107; Mottram-Danish p. 75; Robinson-Palace p. 122; Sinyard-Silent pp. 114, 115; Vermilye-Twenties p. 101 : Website-AFI.

Home video: DVD.