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Lon Chaney (left), Renée Adorée and Owen Moore.
Photograph: Silent Era image collection.
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The Blackbird
Also known as {The Black Bird}
(1926) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels / 6688 feet
Directed by Tod Browning
Cast: Lon Chaney [Dan Tate, also known as ‘The Blackbird’; and ‘The Bishop of Limehouse’, his brother], Owen Moore [Bertram P. Glayde, also known as ‘West End Bertie’], Renée Adorée [Fifi Lorraine], Doris Lloyd [‘Limehouse Polly’], Andy MacLennan [‘The Shadow’], William Weston [Red]; Sidney Bracy [Bertie’s first henchman], Ernie S. Adams [Bertie’s second henchman], Bertram Johns [a member of Bertie’s music hall slumming party], Eric Mayne [a member of Bertie’s music hall slumming party], Lionel Belmore [the music hall proprietor], Frank Norcross [the music hall announcer], Eddie Sturgis [the music hall bartender], Polly Moran [the woman selling flowers], Fred Gamble [the music hall stage manager], Willie Fung [the Chinese man dismissed by Tate], Viola Webster [the girl with the Chinese man], Charles Avery [a music hall patron], Joseph Hazelton [a music hall patron], George Marion [a music hall patron], James T. Mack [the doctor], Cecil Holland [the old man at the mission], Louise Emmons [the old lady at the mission], John T. Prince [the police detective who breaks in the door], Margaret Bert, Peggy Best, Billy Mack
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation [A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture]. / Screen play (scenario) by Waldemar Young, from a screen story by Tod Browning. Settings (production design) by Cedric Gibbons and Arnold Gillespie (A. Arnold Gillespie). Wardrobe designed (costume design) by Kathleen Kay, Maude Marsh and André-Ani. Photography (cinematography) by Percy Hilburn. Film editor, Errol Taggart. Titles (intertitles written) by Joe Farnham (Joseph W. Farnham). Presented by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. / © 29 January 1926 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation [LP22381]. Released 10 January 1926. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Working title: The Mocking Bird. Principal photography was shot from 29 October 1925 through 28 November 1925.
Drama.
Survival status: Prints exist in the George Eastman Museum film archive [35mm positive]; and in private film collections [16mm reduction positive].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Chinese - Criminals - Cripples - Crutches
Listing updated: 27 June 2024.
References: Film credits, film viewing : Eames-MGM p. 23; Kobal-Fifty p. 36; Lahue-Gentlemen p. 49; Limbacher-Feature p. 24; McCaffrey-Guide p. 19; Skal-Browning pp. 293-294; Weaver-Twenty p. 77 : Website-GEM; Website-IMDb.
Home video: DVD.
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