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Finger Prints (film)

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Finger Prints
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Directed byLloyd Bacon
Written byC. Graham Baker
Edward Clark
Arthur Somers Roche
StarringLouise Fazenda
John T. Murray
Helene Costello
CinematographyVirgil Miller
Production
company
Release date
  • January 8, 1927 (1927-01-08)
Running time
70 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Finger Prints is a 1927 American silent comedy crime film directed by Lloyd Bacon and starring Louise Fazenda, John T. Murray, and Helene Costello.[1][2][3]

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Preservation

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With no prints of Finger Prints located in any film archives,[4] it is a lost film.[5] It is referenced in the dialogue of Hitchcock's 1929 film Blackmail, in which a detective says he wants to see the picture, though he expects the details to be wrong. His girlfriend disagrees, saying, "I hear they got a real criminal to direct it. Just to be on the safe side."[6] However, the director, Lloyd Bacon, who had a long and distinguished career, did not have any known criminal record.

References

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  1. ^ Leider, Emily W. Myrna Loy: The Only Good Girl in Hollywood. University of California Press, 2011. p. 316.
  2. ^ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Finger Prints
  3. ^ Progressive Silent Film List: Finger Prints at silentera.com
  4. ^ The Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Finger Prints
  5. ^ Finger Prints at Arne Andersen's Lost Film Files: Lost Warner Bros. films - 1927 Archived December 20, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ Hitchcock, Alfred. "Blackmail". Tubi.tv. Retrieved July 27, 2024.
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