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The Mississippi Gambler
(1929) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels / 5432 feet
Directed by Reginald Barker
Cast: Joseph Schildkraut (Josef Schildkraut) [Jack Morgan], Joan Bennett [Lucy Blackburn], Carmelita Geraghty [Suzette Richards], Alec B. Francis [Junius Blackburn], Otis Harlan [Tiny Beardsley], William Welsh [Captain Weathers]
Universal Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Universal Pictures Corporation. / Screenplay by Edward T. Lowe Jr., with dialogue by Winifred Reeve and H.H. Van Loan, from a screen story by Karl Brown and Leonard Fields. Song “Father Mississippi” by Harry Akst (music) and L. Wolfe Gilbert (lyrics). Cinematography by Gilbert Warrenton. Sound recording by Joseph R. Lapis. Film editor, R.B. Wilcox. Intertitles written by Dudley Early. Presented by Carl Laemmle. / © 17 October 1929 by Universal Pictures Corporation [LP778]. Released 3 November 1929. / [?] Movietone 35mm spherical 1.20:1 format and/or Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format? Western Electric Movietone sound-on-film synchronized sound system. / The film was also released in the USA in a silent version at 5025 feet by Universal Pictures Corporation. / Full-sound film.
Drama: Romance.
Survival status: Print exists.
Current rights holder: (unknown)
Keywords: Death: Suicide - Gamblers - Riverboats - Synchronized sound film
Listing updated: 4 October 2014.
References: Hirschhorn-Universal p. 63; Parish-Glamour pp. 41-42, 95 : ClasIm-221 p. 53 : Website-AFI.
Home video: DVD.
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