The Drop Kick (1927)
Get a choice seat on the fifty yard line for the greatest football game ever put on the screen.
College football player Jack Hamill finds his reputation on the line when he pays an innocent visit to a woman whose husband kills himself.
- Date of release
- 1927-09-25
- TMDB
- 5.2 / 10 (8)
- Runtime
- 1h 2m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Millard Webb
Casting
- Richard Barthelmess — Jack Hamill
- Barbara Kent — Cecily Graves
- Dorothy Revier — Mrs. Eunice Hathaway
- Eugene Strong — Brad Hathaway
- Alberta Vaughn — Molly
- James Bradbury Jr. — Bones
- Brooks Benedict — Ed Pemberton
- Hedda Hopper — Mrs. Hamill
- Mayme Kelso — Mrs. Graves
- George C. Pearce — The Dean
- Bill Elliott — Aggressive Student at Dance
- Al Hill — Jack's Buddy at Dance
Interesting facts
- Based on: Glitter
The Drop Kick is a 1927 American silent film directed by Millard Webb, adapted from the novel Glitter (1925) by Katherine Brush, about a college football player. It was one of the early films of John Wayne who was only aged 20 in the film. He too played a college footballer.
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