Excuse My Dust
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| Excuse My Dust | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Sam Wood |
| Produced by | Adolph Zukor Jesse Lasky |
| Written by | Byron Morgan(short story; The Bear Trap) Will M. Ritchey(scenario) |
| Starring | Wallace Reid |
| Cinematography | Alfred Gilks |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
| Release date(s) | May 21, 1920 |
| Running time | 5 reels; 4,330 feet |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent film(English intertitles) |
Excuse My Dust is a 1920 silent film action comedy produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It is taken from a Saturday Evening Post short story The Bear Trap by Byron Morgan, who penned stories for the previous year's The Roaring Road. Sam Wood directed Wallace Reid in one of Reid's most popular auto-racing pictures. Reid's young son, Wallace Jr., makes his first screen appearance here. This film is preserved in the Library of Congress.[1] [2]
[edit] Cast
- Wallace Reid - 'Toodles' Walton
- Wallace Reid, Jr. - 'Toodles' Jr. (*William Wallace Reid, Jr.)
- Ann Little - Dorothy Ward Walden
- Theodore Roberts - J.D. Ward
- Guy Oliver - Darby
- Otto Brower - Max Henderson
- Tully Marshall - President Mutchler
- Walter Long - Ritz
unbilled
- James Gordon - Griggs
- Jack Herbert - Oldham
- Fred Huntley - Police Magistrate
- Byron Morgan - unknown
- Will M. Ritchey - unknown
[edit] References
- ^ Excuse My Dust at silentera.com
- ^ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Film: 1911-20 by The American Film Institute, c. 1988
