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The Courageous Coward
(1919) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by William Worthington

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa [Suki Iota], Tsuru Aoki [Rei Oaki], Toyo Fujita [Tangi], George Hernandez [Big Bill Kirby], Francis J. McDonald [Tom Kirby], Buddy Post [Cupid]

The Haworth Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Robertson-Cole Company through Exhibitors Mutual Distributing Corporation. / Produced by Sessue Hayakawa. Scenario by Frances Guihan, from a screen story by Thomas J. Geraghty. Art direction by Milton Menasco. Cinematography by Dal Clawson. / © 27 February 1919 by The Haworth Pictures Corporation [LU13446]. Released 14 April 1919. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost : Fragmentary print exists in the Eye Film Instituut Nederland film archive [35mm nitrate positive (Dutch-language intertitles, reel 5 only)].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Japanese: Japanese-Americans - Law: District attorneys

Listing updated: 14 March 2012.

References: FilmmuseumNews-1 : Website-AFI : with additional information provided by Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi.