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Black Oxen
(1923) United States of America
B&W : Eight reels / 7937 feet
Directed by Frank Lloyd
Cast: Corinne Griffith [Madame Zatianny / Mary Ogden, the woman], Conway Tearle [Lee Clavering], Thomas Ricketts (Tom Ricketts) [Charles Dinwiddie], Thomas Guise (Tom Guise) [Judge Gavin Trent], Kate Lester [Jane Oglethorpe], Harry Mestayer [James Oglethorpe], Clara Bow [Janet Oglethorpe], Lincoln Stedman [Donnie Ferris], Claire MacDowell (Claire McDowell) [Agnes Trevor], Alan Hale [Prince Rohenhauer], Clarissa Selwynne [Gora Dwight], Fred Gamble [the Oglethorpe butler], Percy Williams [the Ogden Butler], Otto Nelson [Doctor Steinach], Eric Mayne [the chancellor], Otto Lederer [Austrian advisor], Carmelita Geraghty [Anna Goodrich], Ione Atkinson [flapper], Mila Constantin [flapper], Hortense O’Brien [flapper]
Frank Lloyd Productions, Incorporated, production; distributed by Associated First National Pictures, Incorporated [A First National Picture]. / Screen adaptation (scenario) by Mary O’Hara + [Frank Lloyd], from the novel Black Oxen by Gertrude Franklin Atherton. Art direction by Stephen Goosson. Gowns (costume design) by Walter J. Israel. Photography (cinematography) by Norbert F. Brodin. Film editor, Edward M. Roskam. Titles (intertitles written) by Walter Anthony. Title illustrations (intertitles artwork) by Neil E. McGuire. / © 12 December 1923 by Frank Lloyd Productions, Incorporated [LP19700]. Premiered 29 December 1923 in San Francisco, California. Released January 1924. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film underwent a NFPF-funded preservation by the George Eastman Museum film archive in 2009.
Drama.
Survival status: Prints exist in the George Eastman Museum film archive [35mm nitrate positive, 35mm fine-grain preservation positive (duplicated 2009), 35mm preservation positive (struck 2009)].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Flappers
Listing updated: 21 May 2012.
References: Film credits, film viewing : Higashi-Virgins p. 126; Paris-Brooks p. 129; Weaver-Twenty p. 56 : Photoplay-192306 p. 13 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb; Website-NFPF : with additional information provided by James Layton.
Home video: DVD.
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