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Photograph: Silent Era image collection.
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The Man on the Box
(1925) United States of America
B&W : Eight reels / [?] 7245 or 7481? feet
Directed by Charles F. Reisner
Cast: Sydney Chaplin [Bob Warburton], Alice Calhoun [Betty Annesly], David Butler [Bob’s brother-in-law], Kathleen Calhoun [Mrs. Lampton], Theodore Lorch [Mr. Lampton], Helene Costello [Bob’s sister], E.J. Ratcliffe [Colonel Annesly], Charles F. Reisner [Badkoff], Charles Gerrard [Count Karaloff], Henry Barrows [Robert Warburton Sr., Bob’s father]
Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated, production; distributed by Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated. / Scenario by Charles A. Logue, from the play adaptation The Man on the Box by Harold MacGrath of the novel The Man on the Box by Harold MacGrath. Assistant director, Leslie Charlesworth. Cinematography by Nick Barrows. / © 12 September 1925 by Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated [LP21819]. Released [?] 11 or 17? October 1925. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The novel was previously filmed as The Man on the Box (1914). The film was released in the United Kingdom by The Gaumont Company, Limited, and presented by A.C. Bromhead and R.C. Bromhead.
Comedy.
Survival status: Prints exist in the film holdings of EmGee Film Library [16mm reduction positive]; and in private film collections [16mm reduction positives].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Domestics: Butlers, Gardeners, Maids - Espionage: Secret Plans, Spies - Female impersonation - Transportation: Helicopters
Listing updated: 26 February 2023.
References: FilmYearBook-1926 p. 47; Kerr-Silent p. 292; Limbacher-Feature p. 152 : ClasIm-225 p. 50 : Website-AFI.
Home video: DVD.
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