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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	Dolores Costello. Photograph: Silent Era image collection.

Cast: Dolores Costello [Rose Shannon], Conrad Nagel [Chuck White], Georgie Stone [‘Sparrow’], Mitchell Lewis [the professor], Dan Wolheim [‘Lefty’], Pat Hartigan [‘The Mug’], Fred Kelsey [Detective Simpson], G. Raymond Nye [Cowles], Evelyn Pierce [Bobbie], Dorothy Vernon [Aunt Molly], John Miljan [the bank teller]

Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated, production; distributed by Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated. / Scenario by Edward T. Lowe Jr., with dialogue by Joseph Jackson and Edward T. Lowe Jr., from an adaptation by Edward T. Lowe Jr. of a screen story by Melville Crossman. Assistant director, John Daumery. Cinematography by Hal Mohr. Film editor, Ralph Dawson. Intertitles written by Edward T. Lowe Jr. and Joseph Jackson. / © 22 March 1928 by Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated [LP25089]. Premiere 14 March 1928 at Warners Theatre in New York, New York. Released 28 April 1928. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. Western Electric Vitaphone sound-on-disc synchronized sound system. / Silent film, with talking sequences, synchronized music and sound effects.

Drama: Crime.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Synchronized sound film

Listing updated: 1 November 2015.

References: Sweeney-Coming p. 128 : Website-AFI.