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Show Folks
(1928) United States of America
B&W : Eight reels / 6466 feet
Directed by Paul L. Stein
Cast: Eddie Quillan [Eddie Kehoe], Lina Basquette [Rita Carey], Carol Lombard (Carole Lombard) [Cleo], Robert Armstrong [Owens], Bessie Barriscale [Kitty]
Pathé Exchange, Incorporated, production; distributed by Pathé Exchange, Incorporated. / Produced by Ralph Block. Scenario by Jack Jungmeyer and George Dromgold, from a screen story by Philip Dunning. Production management by Harry Poppe. Art direction by Mitchell Leisen. Song “No One But Me” by Al Koppel, Billy Stone and Charles Weinberg (music and lyrics). Assistant director, Robert Fellows. Cinematography by Peverell Marley (J. Peverell Marley) and David Abel. Film editor, Doane Harrison. Intertitles written by John Krafft (John W. Krafft). / © 16 October 1928 by Pathé Exchange, Incorporated [LP25726]. Released 21 October 1928. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was also released in the USA in a silent version in [?] seven or eight? reels (at 6581 feet) by Pathé Exchange, Incorporated, in 1928; [?] or was the film originally released silent? The film was rereleased in the USA in [?] eight? reels, with added talking sequences utilizing the RCA Photophone sound-on-film synchronized sound system, by Pathé Exchange, Incorporated, in 1929. / Silent film, with synchronized music and sound effects.
Comedy-Drama.
Survival status: Prints exist in the Library of Congress film archive [35mm nitrate positive, 35mm acetate duplicate negative]; in the Centre National du Cinéma et de l’image animée [CNC] film archive [35mm positive]; and in the UCLA Film and Television Archive film archive.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 5 December 2023.
References: Geduld-Birth p. ?; MoPicAlmanac-1929 p. 14 : Website-AFI; Website-ASFFDb.
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