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Courtin’ Wildcats
Also known as Domador de Mulheres in Brazil; Villikissan kesyttäjä in Finland; La manière forte in France; 山猫ならし in Japan; Um Ás do Volante in Portugal; Vildkatten från västern in Sweden
(1929) United States of America
B&W : Five reels / 5118 feet
Directed by Jerome Storm
Cast: Hoot Gibson [Clarence Butts], Eugenia Gilbert [Calamity Jane], Monty Montague (Monte Montague) [McLaren], Joseph Girard [Mr. Butts], James Farley [the doctor], Harry Todd [McKenzie], John Oscar [Quid Johnson], Lon Poff [the professor], Pete Morrison [Mulvey], Fred Gilman [Fred], Jim Corey [the fugitive], Arthur Millett [the police chief], Blackie Whiteford [the cop with a black eye], Ben Corbett [a circus hand], Frank Ellis [a circus hand], Joe Bonomo [the gorilla]
Hoot Gibson Productions production; distributed by Universal Pictures Corporation. / Produced by Hoot Gibson. Screenplay by Dudley McKenna, with dialogue by Dudley McKenna, from the novel Courtin’ Calamity by William Dudley Pelley. Cinematography by Harry Neumann. Sound recording supervision by C. Roy Hunter. Film editor, Gilmore Walker. Presented by Carl Laemmle. / Released 22 December 1929. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format; and Movietone 35mm spherical 1.20:1 format. Western Electric Movietone sound-on-film synchronized sound system. / The film was also released in the USA in a silent version (at 5142 feet) by Universal Pictures Corporation in 1929. The film was released in Ireland on 25 July 1930. The film was released in Finland as Villikissan kesyttäjä on 2 February 1931. The film was released in France as La manière forte on 19 June 1931. The film was released in Sweden as Vildkatten från västern on 19 September 1931. The film was released in Portugal as Um Ás do Volante on 12 July 1932. / [?] Silent film, with talking sequences, synchronized music and sound effects?
Comedy-Drama.
Survival status: Print exists.
Current rights holder: (unknown)
Keywords: Animals: Gorillas - Circuses - Medical: Doctors - Police: Police chiefs, Policemen - Synchronized sound film
Listing updated: 19 May 2020.
References: Hirschhorn-Universal p. 70 : ClasIm-204 p. 33 : Website-IMDb.
Home video: DVD.
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