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The Big Diamond Robbery
Also known as {The Great Diamond Robbery}
(1929) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels / 6114 feet
Directed by Eugene J. Forde (Eugene Forde)

Cast: Tom Mix [Tom Markham], Kathryn McGuire [Ellen Brooks], Frank Beal [George Brooks], Martha Mattox [Aunt Effie Brooks], Ernest Hilliard [Rodney Stevens], Barney Furey [Barney McGill], Tony the horse; Ethan Laidlaw [Chick], Russell Simpson [the stagecoach driver], [?] ? [George Brooks’ secretary], [?] ? [the policeman who wrangles taxi drivers], [?] ? [‘Mr. Grimes,’ Stevens’ main henchman]

FBO Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Greater FBO through RKO Distributing Corporation [An FBO Production]. / Screen play (scenario) by John Stuart Twist, from a screen story by Frank Howard Clark and Eugene J. Forde (Eugene Forde). Production supervision by Robert North Bradbury. Costume design by Walter Plunkett. Photographed (cinematography) by Norman Devol. Film editor, Henry Weber. Titles (intertitles written) by Randolph Bartlett. Presented by William Le Baron. / © 13 May 1929 by FBO Productions, Incorporated [LP529]. Premiered 16 April 1929 at the New York Theatre in New York, New York. General release, 13 May 1929. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Working title: The Dude Ranch. / Silent film.

Drama: Western.

Survival status: Print exists.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 12 July 2023.

References: Film credits, film viewing : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.

Home video: Blu-ray Disc, DVD.

 
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