The Hottentot
(1929) United States of America
B&W : Eight reels / 7241 feet / 79 minutes
Directed by Roy Del Ruth
Cast: Edward Everett Horton [Sam Harrington], Patsy Ruth Miller [Peggy Fairfax], Douglas Gerard [Swift], Edward Earle [Larry Crawford], Stanley Taylor [Alec Fairfax], Gladys Brockwell [Mrs. Chadwick], Maude Turner Gordon [May Gilford], Otto Hoffman [Perkins], Edmund Breese [Ollie]
Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated, production; distributed by Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated. / Screenplay by Harvey Thew, with dialogue by Harvey Thew, from the play The Hottentot by Victor Mapes and William Collier. Cinematography by Barney McGill. Film editor, Owen Marks. / Released 10 August 1929. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. Western Electric Vitaphone sound-on-disc synchronized sound system. / The film was also released in the USA as a silent film (at 5004 feet) by Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated on 28 September 1929. The play was previously filmed as The Hottentot (1922). / Full-sound film.
Comedy.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Synchronized sound film
Listing updated: 7 February 2016.
References: Drew-Speaking pp. 156, 281 : Website-AFI.
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