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His Master’s Voice
(1925) United States of America
B&W : Six reels / 5827 feet
Directed by Renaud Hoffman
Cast: George Hackathorne, Marjorie Daw, Mary Carr, Will Walling, Brooks Benedict, [?] Rex the dog and/or Thunder the dog?, White Fawn the dog, Flash the dog
Gotham Productions production; distributed on State Rights basis by Lumas Film Corporation. / Scenario by Henry McCarty, from the adaptation by James J. Tynan of a screen story by Frank Foster Davis. Cinematography by Jack MacKenzie. Presented by Sam Sax. / Released [?] October? 1925. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / [?] Website-AFI lists the film’s length as 4039 feet, which may only have been the length of the viewed print. The film was rereleased in the USA as The War Dog, with added talking sequences, synchronized music and sound effects; with a song “His Master’s Voice” by Gus Edwards (music), and Howard Johnson and Irving Bibo (lyrics); and with a music score arranged by Joseph E. Zivelli.
Drama: War: World War I.
Survival status: Print exists [35mm positive (incomplete)].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Americans (Abroad) - Early sound film - Synchronized sound film
Listing updated: 8 September 2024.
References: FilmYearBook-1926 pp. 43, 329 : Website-AFI.
Home video: DVD.
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