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Alibi
Also known as The Perfect Alibi in the United Kingdom
(1929) United States of America
B&W : [?] Nine? reels / 8167 feet
Directed by Roland West

Cast: Chester Morris [Chick Williams], Harry Stubbs [Buck Backman], Mae Busch [Daisy Thomas], Eleanor Griffith [Joan Manning], Irma Harrison [Totts], Regis Toomey [Danny McGunn], Al Hill [Brown], James Bradbury Jr. [Blake], Elmer Ballard [‘Soft’ Malone], Kernan Cripps [Trask], Purnell B. Pratt [Sergeant Pete Manning], Pat O’Malley [Detective Tommy Glennon], DeWitt Jennings [Officer O’Brien], Edward Brady [George Stanislaus David], Edward Jardon [singer in theater], Virginia Flohri [singer in theater]

Feature Productions, Incorporated, production; distributed by United Artists Corporation. / Produced by Roland West. Screenplay by Roland West and C. Gardner Sullivan, from the play Nightstick by John Griffith Wray, J.C. Nugent and Elaine S. Carrington. Art direction by William Cameron Menzies. Choreography by Fanchon. Cinematography by Ray June. Film editor, Hal Kern. Music arranged by Hugo Riesenfeld. Presented by Joseph M. Schenck. / Released 1 May 1929. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / [?] Balio-UA p. ? lists producer as Art Cinema Corporation and the release date as 20 April 1929. / Full-sound film.

Drama: Crime.

Survival status: Print exists in the film holdings of Cohen Media Group (Raymond Rohauer collection) [16mm reduction positive].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Law: Enforcement: Police: Detectives, Policemen - Synchronized sound film

Listing updated: 24 September 2013.

References: Baer-Film p. 5; Balio-UA p. ?; Edmonds-Todd p. 278; Everson-Detective p. 57; Limbacher-Feature p. 5; Parish-Gangster pp. 19-20; Sklar-Movie pp. 155, 177, 179; Vermilye-Twenties p. 225.

 
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