A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2024 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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	Otis Harlan (left), Olive Hasbrouck and Reginald Denny. Photograph: Silent Era image collection.

Cast: Reginald Denny [Jack Armitage], Olive Hasbrouck [Miss Bronson], Otis Harlan [Pussyfoot], Lucien Littlefield [Plinge], Colette Marten [Blondie], Robert Anderson [Mate[, Elinor Leslie [aunt], Brooks Benedict [Trumbull]

Universal Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Universal Pictures Corporation [Universal-Jewel]. / Screenplay by Earl Snell and Gladys Lehman, from the adaptation by Earl Snell and Gladys Lehman of the novel When the Devil Was Sick by E.J. Rath. Cinematography by Arthur Todd. Film editors, Jack English (John W. English) and B.W. Burton (Bernard W. Burton). Intertitles written by Albert De Mond and Charles H. Smith. / © 31 January 1929 by Universal Pictures Corporation [LP87]. Released 3 March 1929. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was also released in the USA in a silent version in six reels (at 5740 feet) by Universal Pictures Corporation in 1929. / Silent film, with talking sequences, synchronized music and sound effects.

Comedy.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in Hirschhorn-Universal p. 63.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Criminals - Ships - Synchronized sound film

Listing updated: 4 January 2010.

References: Hirschhorn-Universal p. 63 : Website-AFI.