Finders Keepers (1928 film)
| Finders Keepers | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Wesley Ruggles Otis B. Thayer |
| Written by | Robert Ames Bennett Beatrice Van Tom Reed (intertiles) |
| Based on | short story Make Them Happy by Mary Roberts Rinehart |
| Produced by | Carl Laemmle |
| Starring | Laura La Plante John Harron |
| Cinematography | Virgil Miller |
| Edited by | Lee Halen |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
Release date | March 11, 1928 |
Running time | 68 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent..English titles |
Finders Keepers is a surviving 1928 silent military-comedy film directed by Wesley Ruggles and ?Otis B. Thayer and starring Laura La Plante and John Harron.[1][2] It was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures. The film may or may not be a remake of a 1921 film Finders Keepers singularly directed by Thayer.
Cast[]
- Laura La Plante - Barbara Hastings
- John Harron - Carter Brooks
- Edmund Breese - Colonel Hastings
- Eddie Phillips - 2nd Lt. Kenneth Purdy
- Arthur Rankin - Pvt. Blondy Jones
- Jack Oakie - B.B. Brown
- Joseph P. Mack - Chaplain
- Edgar Dearing - Seargeant
- William Gorman - Bozo
- S. May Stone - Mrs. Satterlee
unbilled
- Andy Devine - -Doughboy/Gate Guard
- Richard "Skeets" Gallagher - Soldier who pursues Blondy
Preservation status[]
This film is preserved in the Library of Congress from elements preserved and prepared by Universal.[3] Its trailer also exists in the Library of Congress.[4]
References[]
- ^ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films 1893-1993:Finders Keepers
- ^ Finders Keepers at silentera.com
- ^ The Library of Congress/FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:Finders Keepers
- ^ [trailer],Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress, (<-book title) p.57 c.1978 by The American Film Institute
External links[]
- Finders Keepers at IMDb
- synopsis at AllMovie
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- 1928 films
- American silent feature films
- American films
- Universal Pictures films
- Films directed by Wesley Ruggles
- Films based on short fiction
- American black-and-white films
- American comedy films
- 1928 comedy films
- Films based on works by Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Surviving American silent films
- 1920s silent comedy film stubs