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Hit and Run
(1924) United States of America
B&W : Six reels / 5508 feet
Directed by Edward Sedgwick

Cast: Hoot Gibson [‘Swat’ Anderson], Marion Harlan [Joan McCarthy], Cyril Ring [George Collins], Harold Goodwin [Tex Adams], DeWitt Jennings [Joe Burns], Mike Donlin [Red McCarthy], William A. Steele (William Steele) [‘The Gopher’], Hank Bell [a cafe customer], Wade Boteler [a gambler], Frank Hagney [a tough guy], LeRoy Mason [a spectator], Arthur Millett [a detective]

Universal Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Universal Pictures Corporation [Universal Gibson Production; It’s a Universal]. / Scenario by Edward Sedgwick and Raymond L. Schrock, from a screen story by Edward Sedgwick and Raymond L. Schrock. Cinematography by Virgil Miller. Presented by Carl Laemmle. / © 14 July 1924 by Universal Pictures Corporation [LP20389]. Released 10 August 1924. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Comedy-Drama: Western-Sports: Baseball.

Survival status: Print exists [16mm reduction positive].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Sports: Baseball: Baseball scouts

Listing updated: 26 January 2025.

References: Edelman-Baseball pp. 29, 61-62, 204; Hirschhorn-Universal p. 46; Limbacher-Feature p. 110 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.