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Sal of Singapore
(1928) United States of America
B&W : [?] Seven? reels / [?] 6389 or 6804? feet
Directed by Howard Higgin
Cast: Phyllis Haver [Sal], Alan Hale [Captain Erickson], Fred Kohler [Captain Sunday], Noble Johnson [Erickson’s first mate], Dan Wolheim [Erickson’s second mate], Jules Cowles [the cook], Pat Harmon [Sunday’s first mate], Harold William Hill [a baby]
Pathé Exchange, Incorporated, production; distributed by Pathé Exchange, Incorporated [Pathé Picture]. / Scenario by Elliott J. Clawson, with dialogue by Howard Higgin and Pierre Gendron, from the novel The Sentimentalists by Dale Collins. Production management by Richard Blaydon. Art direction by Edward C. Jewell. Cinematography by John J. Mescall. Film editor, Claude Berkeley. Intertitles written by Edwin Justus Mayer. Presented by Pathé Exchange, Incorporated. / © 26 November 1928 by Pathé Exchange, Incorporated [LP25867]. Released 4 November 1928. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Working title: Singapore Sal. The film was rereleased in the USA (at 6389 feet), with added talking sequences, synchronized music and sound effects utilizing the RCA Photophone sound-on-film synchronized sound system, by Pathé Exchange, Incorporated, on 4 January 1929 (with music score by Josiah Zuro + [Francis Gromon]; and songs, “Singapore Sal” by Al Koppell, Billy Stone and Charles Weinberg [music and lyrics]; and “Lullaby” by Jack Grun [music] and Charley Wynn [lyrics]). The novel was subsequently filmed as His Woman (1931). / Silent film.
Drama.
Survival status: Prints exist in the UCLA Film and Television Archive film archive [35mm nitrate positive]; in the Centre National du Cinéma et de l’image animée [CNC] film archive; and in the Gosfilmofond film archive.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 6 December 2023.
References: Website-AFI; Website-ASFFDb; Website-IMDb.
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