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The Mississippi Gambler
(1929) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels / 5432 feet
Directed by Reginald Barker
Cast: Joseph Schildkraut (Josef Schildkraut) [Jack Morgan], Joan Bennett [Lucy Blackburn], Carmelita Geraghty [Suzette Richards], Alec B. Francis [Junius Blackburn], Otis Harlan [Tiny Beardsley], William Welsh [Captain Weathers]
Universal Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Universal Pictures Corporation. / Screenplay by Edward T. Lowe Jr., with dialogue by Winifred Reeve and H.H. Van Loan, from a screen story by Karl Brown and Leonard Fields. Song “Father Mississippi” by Harry Akst (music) and L. Wolfe Gilbert (lyrics). Cinematography by Gilbert Warrenton. Sound recording by Joseph R. Lapis. Film editor, R.B. Wilcox. Intertitles written by Dudley Early. Presented by Carl Laemmle. / © 17 October 1929 by Universal Pictures Corporation [LP778]. Released 3 November 1929. / Movietone 35mm spherical 1.20:1 format (sound version) and Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format (silent version). Western Electric Movietone sound-on-film synchronized sound system. / The film was also released in the USA in a silent version, (at 5025 feet), by Universal Pictures Corporation. / Full-sound film.
Drama: Romance.
Survival status: Print exists.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Death: Suicide - Gamblers - Riverboats - Synchronized sound film
Listing updated: 31 January 2025.
References: Hirschhorn-Universal p. 63; Parish-Glamour pp. 41-42, 95 : ClasIm-221 p. 53 : Website-AFI.
Home video: DVD.
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