| THE DUMMY (1929) |
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| *Believed to be a lost film The Players Ruth Chatterton ~ Agnes Meredith Fredric March ~ Trumbull Meredith John Cromwell ~ Walter Babbing Fred Kohler ~ Joe Cooper Mickey Bennett ~ Barney Cook Vondell Darr ~ Peggy Meredith Jack Oakie ~ Dopey Hart Zasu Pitts ~ Rose Gleason Richard Tucker ~ Blackie Baker Eugene Pallette ~ Madison The Creators Production Company ~ Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation Distributor ~ Paramount Pictures Director ~ Robert Milton Screenplay ~ Herman J. Mankiewicz, Joseph L. Mankiewicz ~ Based on the stage comedy by Harvey J. O'Higgins and Harriet Ford Music ~ Max Bergunker, Karl Hajos, Oscar Potoker Photography ~ J. Roy Hunt Supervisor ~ Hector Turnbull Film Editor ~ George Nichols Jr. Assistant Director ~ Morton Whitehill Opened at the Paramount Theatre, New York, 3rd March, 1929. Running time when released, 70 minutes. The Picture March plays the estranged husband of Ruth Chatterton, who suspects him of kidnapping their daughter. Mickey Bennett, the office boy of detective agency head John Cromwell, gets himself kidnapped by the same gang who have taken the girl. He pretends to be a deaf mute in order to trap the kidnappers, but when he talks in his sleep the jig is up. However, he manages to signal to the pursuing rescuers, who capture the gang, whereupon Chatterton and March, reunited in their mutual concern for their offspring, rush to the cabin to claim her. A happy Mickey Bennett gets a pat on the back and a large reward. Reviews Photoplay: The picture looks like a convention of new Hollywood faces imported from the speaking stage...well worth seeing, despite its obvious experimental talkie crudities...the fundamental appeal gets it across. Back to Filmography |
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