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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	Larry Kent (left), June Collyer and Victor McLaglen. Photograph by Max Munn Autrey: Silent Era image collection.

Cast: Victor McLaglen [Citizen Hogan], June Collyer [Connaught O’Brien], Larry Kent [Dermot McDermot], Earle Foxe [John D’Arcy], Hobart Bosworth [Lord Chief Justice James O’Brien]; Eric Mayne [legionnaire colonel], Joseph Benke [Neddy Joe], Belle Stoddard [Anne McDermot], Marion Morrison (John Wayne) [a horse race spectator], Jack Pennick

Fox Film Corporation production; distributed by Fox Film Corporation [John Ford Production]. / Executive producer, William Fox. Scenario by Marion Orth + [Willard Mack], from an adaptation by Philip Klein of the novel Hangman’s House by Donn Byrne (Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne). Assistant director, Phil Ford. Photography (cinematography) by George Schneiderman. Film editor, Margaret V. Clancey. Titles (intertitles written) by Malcolm Stuart Boylan. Presented by William Fox. / © 13 May 1928 by Fox Film Corporation [LP25248]. Released 13 May 1928. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The production was shot January through February 1928. / Silent film.

Drama.

Survival status: Print exists in the Museum of Modern Art film archive; and in private collections [16mm reduction positives].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Animals: Horses - Arranged marriages - French Foreign Legion - Fugitives - Law: Judges - Races

Listing updated: 10 January 2024.

References: Film credits, film viewing : Everson-American pp. 13, 310, 328, 333; Eyman-Wayne pp. 41-42; Gallagher-Ford pp. 47, 57, 58, 60, 86, 132, 551; Limbacher-Feature p. 102; McGhee-Wayne pp. 111, 112, 316; Sinclair-Ford pp. 39-40, 239 : Cinemonkey-17 p. 42 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.

Home video: DVD.