The Fortune Hunter (1927)
The Fortune Hunter is a lost 1927 silent film comedy directed by Charles Reisner and starring Syd Chaplin. It is based on the 1909 Broadway play The Fortune Hunter by Winchell Smith. It was produced by Warner Brothers who released it with a Vitaphone soundtrack.
- Date of release
- 1927-01-18
- TMDB
- 8.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 1h 20m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Director
- Charles Reisner
Casting
- Sydney Chaplin — Nat Duncan
- Helene Costello — Josie Lockwood
- Clara Horton — Betty Graham
- Erville Alderson — Blinky Lockwood
- Thomas Jefferson — Sam Graham
- Duke Martin — Handsome Harry Graham
- Nora Cecil — Betty Carpenter
Interesting facts
The Fortune Hunter is a lost 1927 synchronized sound film comedy directed by Charles Reisner and starring Syd Chaplin. It is based on the 1909 Broadway play The Fortune Hunter by Winchell Smith. While the film has no audible dialogue, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using the Vitaphone sound-on-disc process. The film was produced by Warner Bros.
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