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Dolores Costello and George O’Brien.
Photograph: Silent Era image collection.
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Noah’s Ark
(1928) United States of America
B&W : 11 reels / 100 minutes
Directed by Michael Curtiz
Cast: Dolores Costello [Mary; and Miriam], George O’Brien [Travis; and Japheth], Noah Beery [Nickoloff; and King Nephilim], Louise Fazenda [Hilda, the tavern maid], Gwynn Williams (Guinn ‘Big Boy’ Williams) [Albert ‘Al’ Wilson; and Ham], Paul McAllister [the minister; and Noah], Myrna Loy [a dancer; and the slave girl], Anders Randolf [the German; and leader of the soldiers], Armand Kaliz [the Frenchman; and leader of king’s guards], William V. Mong [the innkeeper; and a guard], Malcolm Waite [the Balkan; and Shem], Nigel de Brulier [a soldier; and the high priest], Noble Johnson [a broker], Otto Hoffman [a trader]; Joe Bonomo [aide to the leader of soldiers], Marion Morrison (John Wayne) [flood extra], Andy Devine [flood extra], [?] Nina Quartero?
Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated, production; distributed by Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated [A Warner Brothers Vitaphone Production]. / Produced by Darryl F. Zanuck. Screenplay by Anthony Coldewey, with dialogue by Anthony Coldewey, from a screen story by Darryl Francis Zanuck (Darryl F. Zanuck). Technical director, Fred Jackman. Technicians, Esdras Hartley, Lewis Geib, Frank Murphy, Harold Miles, Paul Grimm, Ned Mann, Henry Blanke, John Daumery and Victor Vance. Miniature effects by Fred Jackman. Song “Heart o’ Mine” by Billy Rose and Louis Silvers. Cinematography by Hal Mohr and Barney McGill. Film editor, Harold McCord. Intertitles written by De Leon Anthony. Music conducted by Louis Silvers. Presented by Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated and The Vitaphone Corporation. / © 28 May 1929 by Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated [LP417]. Premiered 1 November 1928 in Los Angeles, California. General release, 15 June 1929. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. Western Electric Vitaphone sound-on-disc synchronized sound system. / Reputedly, several extras drowned during the shooting of the flood sequences. The roadshow version of the film, which ran approximately 135 minutes, is presumed lost. The film was also released in the USA in a silent version by Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated, at 9058 feet on 27 July 1929. The general release version of the film was restored by UCLA Film and Television Archive in 2006. / Silent film, with talking sequences, synchronized music and sound effects.
Drama: Biblical.
Survival status: Print exists in the UCLA Film and Television Archive film archive [35mm restoration negative, 35mm restoration positive (general release version)].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: France: Paris - Synchronized sound film - War: World War I
Listing updated: 10 January 2024.
References: Film credits, film viewing : Brownlow-Parade p. 324; Everson-American pp. 214, 216, 246q, 338; Eyman-Wayne p. 42; Limbacher-Feature p. 174; Shipman-Cinema p. 102; Smith-Epic pp. xvii, 158-159; Vermilye-Twenties pp. 211-213 : ClasIm-204 pp. 33, 44; ClasIm-224 p. 55 : Website-AFI.
Home video: DVD.
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