A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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	Raymond Griffith. Frame enlargement: Silent Era image collection.

Cast: Betty Compson [Molly], Raymond Griffith [the dude from Duluth], Tom Santschi [Detective Callahan], Bert Woodruff [the bride’s father], Fred Kelsey [a confederate], Edgar Kennedy [a detective], Leo White [a gang member as the frantic ‘Chinese’ man], Ellinor Vanderveer [a party guest], [?] Noah Beery?

Famous Players-Lasky Corporation production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation [A Clarence Badger Production; A Paramount Picture]. / Screen play (scenario) by Keene Thompson, from [?] an adaptation by Howard Hawks? of the play The Heart of a Thief by Paul Armstrong. Photographed (cinematography) by H. Kinley Martin. Presented by Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky. / © 24 June 1925 by Famous Players-Lasky Corporation [LP21596]. Released 29 June 1925. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The play was subsequently filmed as Hold That Blonde (1945).

Comedy.

Survival status: Prints exist in the George Eastman Museum film archive [35mm positive (missing the final reel)]; and in private film collections [16mm reduction positives].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Chinese - Criminals: Grifters - Docks - Domestics: Maids - Hotels - Jewelry: Diamonds - Law: Enforcement: Police: Detectives - USA: California

Listing updated: 23 June 2023.

References: Film credits, film viewing : Everson-American p. 270; Everson-Detective pp. 26, 32; FilmYearBook-1926 pp. 49, 61; Kerr-Silent pp. 298, 299, 300, 307; Sarris-Sternberg p. 10 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb : with additional information provided by Bruce Calvert.

Home video: Blu-ray Disc, DVD.