The Police Patrol
Also known as Investigação Policial in Portugal
(1925) United States of America
B&W : Six reels / 5500 feet
Directed by Burton L. King
Cast: James Kirkwood [Officer Jim Ryan], Edna Murphy [Alice Bennett / Dorothy Stone], Edmund Breese [Tony Rocco], Bradley Barker, Frank Evans [Buddy Bennett], Joseph W. Smiley [Lieutenant Burke], Robert McKim [Maurice Ramon], Blanche Craig [Nora Mullen], Edward Roseman [Chicago Charley], Tammany Young [the crasher], Charles Craig [Perkins], James Laffey [Inspector Regan], Monya Andre [Mademoiselle Semononff]
Gotham Productions production; distributed on State Rights basis by Lumas Film Corporation. / Produced by Sam Sax. Supervising producer, Lon Young. Scenario by Victoria Moore, from a screen story by A.Y. Pearson. Cinematography by John W. Brown and Charles J. Davis. / Released [?] 28 August or 13 September? 1925. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Reputedly the first feature film to be broadcast on American television on 6 April 1931 by station W2XCD in Passaic, New Jersey.
Drama: Crime.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 25 July 2021.
References: FilmYearBook-1926 facing page 1, pp. 51, 329 : Website-IMDb.
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