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The Traveling Salesman
(1916) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by Joseph Kaufman

Cast: Frank McIntyre [Bob Blake], Doris Kenyon [Beth Elliot], Harry Northrup [Franklin Royce], Russell Bassett [Martin Drury], Julia Stuart [Mrs. Babbitt], Harry Blakemore [Julius, the porter], James O’Neill Jr. [Watts]

Famous Players Film Company production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation. / From the play The Traveling Salesman by James Grant Forbes. Cinematography by Lawrence E. Williams and Karl Brown. Presented by Daniel Frohman. / © 13 December 1916 by Famous Players Film Company [LP9725]. Released 18 December 1916. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Comedy-Drama.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.4548.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 1 December 2023.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.4548; Edmonds-Arbuckle pp. 267-268 : Website-AFI; Website-ASFFDb.