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Excess Baggage
(1928) United States of America
B&W : Eight reels / 7182 feet
Directed by James Cruze

Cast: William Haines [Eddie Kane], Josephine Dunn [Elsa McCoy], Neely Edwards [Jimmy Dunn], Kathleen Clifford [Mabel Ford], Grata Granstedt [Betty Ford], Ricardo Cortez [Val D’Errico], Cyril Chadwick [Crammon], [?] Delmer Daves?, [?] Verlyn Sumner?

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation [A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture; A James Cruze Production]. / Production by James Cruze and Julius Hagen. Continuity (scenario) by Frances Marion, with dialogue by Ralph Spence, from the play Excess Baggage by John Wesley McGowan. Settings (art direction) by Cedric Gibbons. Wardrobe (costume design) by David Cox. Cinematography by Ira H. Morgan. Stills photography by Buddy Longworth. Music score by William Axt. Musical conductor, David Mendoza. Film editor, George Hively. Intertitles written by Ralph Spence. / © 8 August 1928 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation [LP25612]. Released 8 September 1928. / Movietone 35mm spherical 1.20:1 format (sound) and Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format (silent). Western Electric Movietone sound-on-film synchronized sound system. / The film was also released in the USA by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation in a silent version. The film was released in Canada by [?] Regal Films, Limited? in 1928. The film was released in the United Kingdom by Jury-Metro-Goldwyn, Limited, on 4 January 1929. / Silent film, with synchronized music and sound effects.

Comedy-Drama.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Synchronized sound film - Theatres

Listing updated: 3 April 2023.

References: Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.

 
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