The Missing Link (1927 film)

1927 film

The Missing Link
Swedish release poster
Directed by	Charles Reisner
Written by	Charles Reisner Darryl F. Zanuck
Starring	Syd Chaplin Ruth Hiatt Tom McGuire
Cinematography	Devereaux Jennings
Music by	Erno Rapee
Production company	Warner Bros.
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date	May 6, 1927 (1927年05月06日)
Running time	70 minutes
Country	United States
Languages	Sound (Synchronized) (English Intertitles)
Budget	313,000ドル ^[1]
Box office	608,000ドル^[1]

The Missing Link is a 1927 American synchronized sound comedy film directed by Charles Reisner and starring Syd Chaplin, Ruth Hiatt and Tom McGuire.^[2] While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using the Vitaphone sound-on-disc process. The title of the film is a reference to the so-called "missing link" that connects man and the ape.

Plot

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Cast

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Syd Chaplin as Arthur Wells
Ruth Hiatt as Beatrice Braden
Tom McGuire as Colonel Braden
Crauford Kent as Lord Melville Dryden
Nick Cogley as Captain
Sam Baker as The Missing Link
Otto Fries
Kewpie Morgan as Baggage Master

Reception

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The film was a major production by Warner Brothers, with a budget of 313,000ドル. It earned 608,000,ドル more than any other silent film released by the studio that season.^[2]

The New York Times critic Mordaunt Hall praised the film, observing "there are sequences in this comic contraption that are almost ceirtain to appeal to anybody".^[3]

Box Office

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According to Warner Bros records the film earned 425,000ドル domestically and 163,000ドル foreign.^[1]

References

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^ ^a ^b ^c Warner Bros financial information in The William Schaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1-31 p 5 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551
^ ^a ^b Stein 2010, p. 151.
^ Stein 2010, p. 150.