A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2024 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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The Live Wire
(1925) United States of America
B&W : Eight reels / 6850 feet
Directed by Charles Hines

Cast: Johnny Hines [‘The Great Marinelli’], Edmund Breese [‘Sawdust Sam’], Mildred Ryan [Dorothy Langdon], J. Barney Sherry [Henry Langdon], Bradley Barker [George Trent], Flora Finch [Pansy Darwin], [?] Richard Talmadge?

Johnny Hines Productions production; distributed by First National Pictures, Incorporated. / From the short story “The Game of Light” by Richard Washburn Child. Production management by Benny Berk. Assistant director, Charles Derner and Joe Bannon. Cinematography by Charles E. Gilson, John Geisel and Paul Strand. Film editor, George Amy. Intertitles written by John Krafft (John W. Krafft). Presented by C.C. Burr. / © 14 September 1925 by First National Pictures, Incorporated [LP21815]. Released [?] 20 or 25? October 1925. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Comedy.

Survival status: Prints exist in the film holdings of Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum (EmGee Film Library collection) [16mm reduction positive]; and in private film collections [16mm reduction positives].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Amusement parks - Circuses

Listing updated: 3 December 2024.

References: FilmYearBook-1926 facing page 1, p. 45; Limbacher-Feature p. 143; Sweeney-Coming p. 124; Weaver-Twenty p. 173 : Website-AFI.