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The Fourth Commandment
(1927) United States of America
B&W : Six reels / 6853 feet
Directed by Emory Johnson
Cast: Henry Victor [Gordon Graham], Belle Bennett [Virginia Nelson, later Mrs. Gordon Graham], Mary Carr [Mrs. Graham, Gordon’s mother], June Marlowe [Marjorie Miller, later Mrs. Robert Graham], Robert Agnew [Robert ‘Sonny’ Graham], Frank Elliott [Frederick Stoneman], Wendell Phillips Franklin [Sonny Graham, as a child], Leigh Willard (Lee Willard) [Edmund Graham], Brady Cline (Brady Kline) [Ray Miller], Catherine Wallace [Mrs. Miller], Knute Erickson [John Malloy], Kathleen Myers [Mrs. Smith], Lorraine Rivero [Marjorie Miller, as a child], Malcolm Jones [Gordon Graham, as a child], Stanley Taylor [Count Douglas Von Rosen], Wilson Benge [Mrs. Graham’s butler], Macon Jones [a child], [?] ? [Violet, a maid]
Universal Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Universal Pictures Corporation [An Emory Johnson Production; A Universal Production; Universal-Jewel; A Universal Special]. / Scenario by Emory Johnson, from a screen story by Emilie Johnson. Art direction by Charles D. Hall. Assistant directors, Frank Gereghty (Frank Geraghty) and Einar Svalbe. Photographed (cinematography) by Arthur Todd (Arthur L. Todd). Stills photography by Albert Wetzel. Film editors, Ted Kent (Ted J. Kent) + [Emory Johnson]. Titles (intertitles written) by Carrol Owen (Carroll Owen). Presented by Carl Laemmle. / © 14 October 1926 by Universal Pictures Corporation [LP23239]. Previewed at Bard’s Theatre in Pasadena, California, at eight reels (7560 feet) on 24 August 1926. Released 20 March 1927. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Although announced as cast members, Raymond Keane and Claire du Bray did not appear in the film. / Silent film.
Drama: Romance.
Survival status: Prints exist in the British Film Institute National Archive film archive [35mm positive (incomplete)]; and in the film holdings of Jon C. Mirsalis (Gordon Berkow collection) [16mm reduction positive].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 1 April 2024.
References: Film credits, film viewing : Hirschhorn-Universal p. 57 : Website-AFI; Website-ASFFDb; Website-IMDb.
Home video: Blu-ray Disc, DVD.
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