A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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Came the Dawn
(1928) United States of America
B&W : Two reels
Directed by Arch Heath

Cast: Max Davidson [Papa Gimplewart], Polly Moran [Mama Gimplewart], Gene Morgan [the head remover], Viola Richard [the Gimplewart daughter], Charles Dorety [the Gimplewart son], Edgar Dearing [the tall mover], [?] Charley Young? [the short mover], [?] Spec O’Donnell?

Hal Roach Studios, Incorporated, production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation [A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture]. / Produced by Hal Roach. Supervising director, Leo McCarey. Cinematography by George Stevens. Film editor, Richard C. Currier. Intertitles written by H.M. Walker. Presented by Hal Roach. / Released 3 March 1928. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Comedy.

Survival status: Print exists [35mm duplicate positive (incomplete)].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 11 March 2024.

References: Film viewing : Website-IMDb.

Home video: DVD.