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The Man Under Cover
(1922) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by Tod Browning

Cast: Herbert Rawlinson [Paul Porter], George Hernandez [Daddy Moffat], William Courtwright (William Courtright) [Mayor Harper], George Webb [Jones Wiley], Edwin Booth Tilton (Edwin B. Tilton) [‘Coal Oil’ Chase], Gerald Pring [Holt Langdon], Barbara Bedford [Margaret Langdon], Willis Marks [Colonel Culpepper], Betty Eliason [a child], Betty Stone [a child]

Universal Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Universal Pictures Corporation. / Scenario by Harvey Gates, from a story by Louis Victor Eytinge. Assistant director, Leo McCarey. Cinematography by Virgil Miller. Presented by Carl Laemmle. / Released 10 April 1922. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / [?] Possibly Hernandez’s final film.

Drama: Crime.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 17 October 2022.

References: Hirschhorn-Universal p. 39 : ClasIm-224 p. 54 : Website-IMDb.