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  William Haines (left) and Lon Chaney.
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Tell It to the Marines
(1926) United States of America
B&W : Nine reels / 8800 feet
Directed by George W. Hill

Cast: Lon Chaney [Sergeant O’Hara], William Haines [Private ‘Skeet’ Burns], Eleanor Boardman [Norma Dale], Eddie Gribbon [Corporal Madden], Carmel Myers [Zaya], Warner Oland [Chinese bandit leader], Mitchell Lewis [native], Frank Currier [General Wilcox], Maurice E. Kains [Harry], Sergeant H.H. Hopple, Daniel G. Tomlinson, Willie Fung, Sergeant Jiggs, Ray Erlenborn [extra]

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation. / Scenario by E. Richard Schayer, from a screen story by E. Richard Schayer. Production design by Cedric Gibbons and A. Arnold Gillespie. Cinematography by Ira Morgan. Film editor, Blanche Sewell. Intertitles written by Joe Farnham (Joseph Farnham). Music score by William Axt. / © 21 December 1926 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation [LP23475] (in ten reels). Premiered 23 December 1926 in New York, New York. General release, 29 January 1927. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama.

Survival status: Print exists in the Turner Entertainment Company film archive (MGM collection) [35mm positive].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Chinese - Filipinos - Marines - Soldiers - Vamps

Listing updated: 14 June 2015.

References: Drew-Speaking p. 275; Eames-MGM p. 28; Edmonds-BigU p. 139; Fell-History p. 86; Limbacher-Feature p. 244; Sweeney-Coming p. 111; Vermilye-Twenties pp. 155-157; Weaver-Twenty p. 77 : ClasIm-311 p. 72 : Website-AFI.

Home video: DVD.

 
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