Burning Daylight (1928 film)
Appearance
Burning Daylight | |
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Directed by | Charles Brabin |
Written by | Louis Stevens |
Based on | Burning Daylight by Jack London |
Produced by | Wid Gunning Richard A. Rowland First National Pictures |
Starring | Milton Sills Doris Kenyon |
Cinematography | Sol Polito |
Edited by | Frank Ware |
Distributed by | First National |
Release date |
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Running time | 7 reels |
Country | USA |
Language | Silent..English titles |
Burning Daylight is a 1928 silent dramatic action adventure film directed by Charles Brabin and starring Milton Sills and Doris Kenyon, a real-life married couple. It was produced and distributed by First National Pictures and based on the 1910 novel of the same name by Jack London. It was previously filmed by Metro Pictures in 1920.[1][2]
Cast
- Milton Sills - Burning Daylight
- Doris Kenyon - 'The Virgin'
- Arthur Stone - 'French Louie'
- Guinn "Big Boy" Williams - 'English Harry'
- Lawford Davidson - Morton
- Jane Winton - Martha Fairbee
- Stuart Holmes - Blake
- Edmund Breese - John Dossett
- Howard Truesdale - Letton
- Frank Hagney - Johnson
- Harry Northrup - The Stranger
Preservation status
- The film is preserved in the Library of Congress collection.[3][4] The film is also available on the DVD format.[5]
References
- ^ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films:..Burning Daylight
- ^ Burning Daylight at silentera.com
- ^ Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress, (<-book title) p.24 c.1978 by the American Film Institute
- ^ The Library of Congress/FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:..Burning Daylight
- ^ Burning Daylight , dvd, silentera.com
External links
- Burning Daylight at IMDb
- synopsis at AllMovie
Categories:
- 1928 films
- American silent feature films
- Films directed by Charles Brabin
- First National Pictures films
- Films based on American novels
- Films based on works by Jack London
- American films
- American black-and-white films
- American adventure drama films
- American action adventure films
- Silent film stubs
- Action adventure film stubs