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The Boob
Also known as The Yokel in the United Kingdom
(1926) United States of America
B&W : [?] Five or Six? reels / 5020 feet
Directed by William A. Wellman

Cast: Gertrude Olmstead [Amy], George K. Arthur [Peter Good], Joan Crawford [Jane, the revenue agent], Charles Murray [Cactus Jim], Antonio D’Algy [Harry Benson], Hank Mann [the village soda clerk]; [?] ? [Ham Bunn], Edythe Chapman [the poor old lady], Babe London [the soda clerk’s demanding dinner date], Arthur Millett [the assistant revenue agent], Viola Webster [a girl at the Booklovers’ Club], [?] ? the dog [Benzine, Ham Bunn’s dog]

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. / Scenario by Kenneth B. Clarke, from a screen story by George Scarborough and Annette Westbay. Settings (production design) by Cedric Gibbons and Ben Carre (Ben Carré). Photography (cinematography) by William Daniels. Film editor, Ben Lewis. Titles (intertitles written) by Katharine Hilliker and H.H. Caldwell. Presented by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. / © 19 May 1926 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation [LP22753]. Released 17 May 1926. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Comedy.

Survival status: Print exists.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Courtships - Criminals: Bootleggers - Farmers - Government: Revenue agents - Prohibition

Listing updated: 9 May 2021.

References: Film credits, film viewing : Eames-MGM p. 35; Quirk-Crawford pp. 14, 37-38 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.

Home video: DVD.

 
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