A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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	Alice Day and Reginald Denny. Photograph: Silent Era image collection.

Cast: Reginald Denny [Darrow], Alice Day [Buddy Long], Charles Byer [George], Thomas Ricketts (Tom Ricketts) [Colonel Long], De Witt Jennings (DeWitt Jennings) [Judge O’Brien], Fritzi Ridgeway [Slavey], Hector V. Sarno [the Italian father], Audrey Scott [Darrow’s secretary], Frankie Genardi [a little boy]

Universal Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Universal Pictures Corporation [A Universal Denny Production; Universal-Jewel]. / Screenplay by Gladys Lehman and Matt Taylor, from the adaptation by Faith Thomas of a screen story by Gladys Lehman. Stunt driver, Audrey Scott. Cinematography by Arthur L. Todd. Film editors, Ray Curtiss and Jack English (John English). Intertitles written by Albert DeMond. Presented by Carl Laemmle. / © 1 December 1928 by Universal Pictures Corporation [LP25891]. Released 27 January 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, in seven reels (at 6288 feet), by Universal Pictures Corporation in 1929. / Silent film, with talking sequences, synchronized music and sound effects.

Comedy.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in Hirschhorn-Universal p. 64.

Survival status: (unkn0wn)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Law: Arrests, Enforcement (Policemen) - Synchronized sound film

Listing updated: 28 January 2025.

References: Hirschhorn-Universal p. 64 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.