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Ken Maynard and Edith Roberts.
Photograph: Silent Era image collection.
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The Wagon Master
(1929) United States of America
B&W : Six reels / 6335 feet
Directed by Harry J. Brown (Harry Joe Brown)
Cast: Ken Maynard [The Rambler], Edith Roberts [Sue Smith], Frederick Dana [Bill Hollister], Tom Santschi [Jake Lynch], Al Ferguson [Jacques Frazelle], Jack Hanlon [Billie Hollister], Billie Dunn [Buckeye Pete], Whitehorse [‘Stuttering Sam’], Frank Rice [‘Grasshopper’]
Ken Maynard Productions production; distributed by Universal Pictures Corporation [Universal-Jewel]. / Scenario by Marion Jackson, with dialogue by Leslie Mason, from a screen story by Marion Jackson. Cinematography by Ted D. McCord. Sound recording by C. Roy Hunter. Film editor, Fred Allen. Intertitles written by Leslie Mason. Presented by Carl Laemmle. / Released 8 September 1929. / [?] Movietone 35mm spherical 1.20:1 format and/or Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format? Western Electric Movietone sound-on-film synchronized sound system. / The film was also released in the USA in a silent version (at 5679 feet) by Universal Pictures Corporation. / Silent film, with talking sequences, synchronized music and sound effects.
Drama: Western.
Survival status: Print exists in the Eye Film Instituut Nederland film archive.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Synchronized sound film
Listing updated: 30 November 2023.
References: Hirschhorn-Universal p. 65; Weaver-Twenty p. 239 : Website-AFI; Website-ASFFDb.
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