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The Mating Call
(1928) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels / 6352 feet
Directed by James Cruze

Cast: Thomas Meighan [Leslie Hatton], Evelyn Brent [Rose Henderson], Renée Adorée [Catherine], Alan Roscoe [Lon Henderson], Gardner James [Marvin Swallow], Helen Foster [Jessie], Luke Cosgrave [Judge Peebles], Cyril Chadwick [Anderson], Will R. Walling, Delmer Daves

The Caddo Company, Incorporated, production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation. / Produced by Howard Hughes. Scenario by Walter Woods, from the novel The Mating Call by Rex Beach. Song “The Mating Call” by Frances Ring and Martin Roones (music and lyrics). Cinematography by Ira H. Morgan. Film editor, Walter Woods. Intertitles written by Herman J. Mankiewicz. Presented by Howard Hughes. / © 4 September 1928 by The Caddo Company, Incorporated [LP25596]. Released 21 July 1928. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Silent film.

Drama.

Survival status: Print exists in the University of Nevada Las Vegas Film Department film archive (Howard Hughes collection).

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Authors: Rex Beach (1877-1949) - Crime: Murder - Death: Murder - Ku Klux Klan - Law: Judges

Listing updated: 4 October 2014.

References: McCaffrey-Guide p. 19; Pitts-Hollywood p. 45; Weaver-Twenty p. 28 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.

Home video: DVD.