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The Sign on the Door
(1921) American
B&W : Seven reels / 7100 feet
Directed by Herbert Brenon

Cast: Norma Talmadge [Ann Hunniwell, later Mrs. ‘Lafe’ Regan], Charles Richman [‘Lafe’ Regan], Lew Cody [Frank Devereaux], David Proctor [Colonel Gaunt], Augustus Balfour [Ferguson, Devereaux’s valet], Mac Barnes [‘Kick’ Callahan], Helen Weir [Helen Regan], Robert Agnew [Alan Churchill], Martinie Burnlay [Marjorie Blake], Paul McAllister [District Attorney ‘Rud’ Whiting], Louis Hendricks [Inspector Treffy], Walter Bussel [Bates, the Regan butler]

Norma Talmadge Productions production; distributed by Associated First National Pictures, Incorporated. / Scenario by Mary Murillo and Herbert Brenon, from the play The Sign on the Door by Channing Pollock. Technical director, Willard M. Reineck. Cinematography by J. Roy Hunt. Presented by Joseph M. Schenck. / © 28 September 1921 by Norma Talmadge Productions [LP17016]. Released May 1921. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format.

Drama.

Survival status: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive [35mm positive].

Current rights holder: Public domain.

Listing updated: 17 March 2010.

References: Everson-American p. 343; Weaver-Twenty p. 28 : Website-AFI; Website-Talmadge.