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  Helene Chawick and Francis X. Bushman.
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Say It with Sables
Also known as The Reckoning in the United Kingdom
(1928) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels / 6401 feet
Directed by Frank Capra

Cast: Francis X. Bushman [John Caswell], Helene Chadwick [Helen Caswell], Margaret Livingston [Irene Gordon], Arthur Rankin [Doug Caswell], June Nash [Marie Caswell], Alphonz Ethier [Detective Mitchell], Edna Mae Cooper [the maid]

Columbia Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Columbia Pictures Corporation [A Frank Capra Production]. / Produced by Harry Cohn. Scenario by Dorothy Howell, from a screen story by Frank Capra and Peter Milne. Art direction by Harrison Wiley. Assistant director, Joe Nadel (Joseph H. Nadel). Cinematography by Joe Walker (Joseph Walker). Edited by Arthur Roberts. / © 1 September 1928 by Columbia Pictures Corporation [LP25600]. Released 13 July 1928. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Silent film.

Drama.

Synopsis: Synopses available in AFI-F2 n. F2.4821, and in Maturi-Bushman pp. 179-180.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost : A trailer for this film has survived.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Crime: Murder - Death: Murder, Suicide - Domestics: Maids - Gold diggers - Law: Enforcement: Police: Detectives - Mistresses - Widowers

Listing updated: 6 October 2009.

References: AFI-F2 n. F2.4821; Maturi-Bushman pp. 86, 179-180; McBride-Capra p. 723; Poague-Capra p. 236 : Website-AFI.

 
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