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It Can Be Done
(1929) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels
Directed by Fred Newmeyer (Fred C. Newmeyer)

Cast: Glenn Tryon [Jerry Willard], Sue Carol [Anne Rogers], Richard Carlyle [Rogers], Richard Carle [Watson], Jack Egan [Ben Smith], Tom O’Brien [the detective]

Universal Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Universal Pictures Corporation. / Scenario by Albert DeMond [?] + A.B. Heath (Arch Heath) and Joseph F. Poland?, from an adaptation by Nan Cochrane and Earle Snell of a story by Mann Page + [Edward J. Montagne]. Dialogue direction by A.B. Heath (Arch Heath). Cinematography by Ross Fisher. Film editor, Ted Kent. Dialogue sequences editor, B.W. Burton (Bernard W. Burton). Intertitles written by Albert De Mond. Presented by Carl Laemmle. / Released 24 March 1929. / Movietone 35mm spherical 1.20:1 format and Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. Western Electric Movietone sound-on-film synchronized sound system. / The film was also released in the USA in a silent version by Universal Pictures Corporation in 1929. / Silent film, with talking sequences, synchronized music and sound effects.

Comedy.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Synchronized sound film

Listing updated: 21 October 2022.

References: Hirschhorn-Universal p. 65 : Website-IMDb.