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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By Whose Hand?
(1927) United States of America
B&W : Six reels / 5432 feet
Directed by Walter Lang

Cast: Ricardo Cortez [Agent X-9 / ‘Van Suydam Smith’], Eugenia Gilbert [Peg Hewlett], J. Thornton Baston [Sidney], Tom Dugan [Rollins], Edgar ‘Blue’ Washington [Eli], Lillianne Leighton (Lillian Leighton) [‘Silly’ McShane], William Scott [Mortimer], John Steppling [Claridge], De Sacia Mooers [Tex]

Columbia Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Columbia Pictures Corporation. / Produced by Harry Cohn. Scenario by Marion Orth, from a screen story by Marion Orth. Art direction by Robert E. Lee. Assistant director, Clifford Saum. Cinematography by J.O. Taylor. Presented by Columbia Pictures Corporation. / © 10 October 1927 by Columbia Pictures Corporation [LP24491]. Released 15 September 1927. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Silent film.

Drama: Crime-Mystery: Espionage.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Crime: Robbery - Espionage: Secret agents, Spies - Law: Enforcement: Police: Detectives - USA: New York: Long Island, New York

Listing updated: 28 March 2024.

References: Everson-Detective p. 30 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.