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Daddy’s Gone a’ Hunting
Also known as [Daddy’s Gone a-Hunting], [A Man’s World]
(1925) United States of America
B&W : Six reels / 5851 feet
Directed by Frank Borzage

Cast: Alice Joyce [Edith], Percy Marmont [Julian], Virginia Marshall [Janet], Helen D’Algy [Olga], Ford Sterling [Oscar], Holmes Herbert [Greenough], Edythe Chapman [Mrs. Greenough]

Metro-Goldwyn Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn Distributing Corporation. / Produced by Frank Borzage. Executive producer, Louis B. Mayer. Scenario by Kenneth B. Clarke, from the [?] novel or play? Daddy’s Gone a-Hunting by Zoë Akins. Set design by Cedric Gibbons. Assistant director, Bunny Dull (Orville O. Dull). Cinematography by Chester Lyons. Film editor, Frank Sullivan. Presented by Louis B. Mayer. / © 9 March 1925 by Metro-Goldwyn Pictures Corporation [LP21218]. Released 8 March 1925. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama.

Survival status: Print exists in the Národní Filmovy Archiv film archive.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: France: Paris

Listing updated: 18 May 2010.

References: Eames-MGM p. 24; FilmYearBook-1926 p. 37 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb : with additional information provided by Manish Patwari.

Home video: DVD.