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The Pace That Kills
(1928) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels
Directed by Norton S. Parker and William A. O’Connor

Cast: Owen Gorin [Eddie], Virginia Roye [Fannie], Thelma Daniels [Mary Jane, Eddie’s sweetheart], Florence Turner [Eddie’s mother], Florence Dudley [Grace, Eddie’s sister], Harry Todd [Uncle Caleb], Arnold Dallas [Handsome Nick, the king of the underworld]; [?] ? [Snowy, the peddler]

Willis Kent Productions production; distributed on State Rights basis by True-Life Photoplays. / Photographed (cinematography) by Ernest Laszlo. Film editor, Edith Wakeling. Intertitles written by Ruth Todd. Presented by Willis Kent. / © 7 December 1928 by Willis Kent Productions [LP25896]. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Silent film.

Drama.

Survival status: Print exists [16mm reduction positive].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Criminals: Drug dealers - Department stores - Drugs: Cocaine

Listing updated: 3 February 2018.

References: Film credits, film viewing : Website-AFI.

Home video: DVD.