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Double Speed
(1920) United States of America
B&W : Five reels / 4144 feet
Directed by Sam Wood

Cast: Wallace Reid [‘Speed’ Carr], Wanda Hawley [?] [Effie McPherson or Sallie McPherson]?, Tully Marshall [Donald McPherson], Theodore Roberts [John Ogden], Lucien Littlefield [Reginald Toby], Guy Oliver [pawnbroker], Maxine Elliott Hicks

Famous Players-Lasky Corporation production; distributed by Famous Players-Lasky Corporation through Paramount Pictures Corporation [A Paramount-Artcraft Picture]. / Scenario by Clara Genevieve Kennedy, from a story by J. Stewart Woodhouse. Cinematography by Alfred Gilks. / © 15 December 1919 by Famous Players-Lasky Corporation [LP14557]. Released February 1920. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Working title: Speed Carr. Wood’s first film as director.

Comedy.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.1092.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Banks - Chauffeurs - Marriages - Tramps - Transportation: Automobiles

Listing updated: 29 October 2024.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.1092; Carroll-Matinee p. 118; Sweeney-Coming p. 13; Vermilye-Twenties p. 22 : Website-AFI.