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Tell It to Sweeney
(1927) United States of America
B&W : Six reels / 6006 feet
Directed by Gregory La Cava

Cast: Chester Conklin [Luke Beamish], George Bancroft [Cannonball Casey], Jack Luden [Jack Sweeney], Doris Hill [Doris Beamish], Franklin Bond [Superintendent Dugan], William H. Tooker [Old Man Sweeney]

Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation. / Associate producer, B. P. Schulberg. Scenario by Percy Heath and Kerry Clarke, from a screen story by Percy Heath and Monte Brice. Cinematography by H. Kinley Martin. Intertitles written by George Marion Jr. Presented by Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky. / © 24 September 1927 by Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation [LP24450]. Released 24 September 1927. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Silent film.

Comedy.

Survival status: Print exists in the Gosfilmofond film archive.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 7 October 2012.

References: Katchmer-Eighty p. 12 : Website-AFI : with additional information provided by Manish Patwari.