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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	Sydney Chaplin. Photograph: Silent Era image collection.

Cast: Sydney Chaplin [Arthur Wells], Ruth Hiatt [Beatrice Braden], Tom McGuire [Colonel Braden], Crauford Kent [Lord Dryden], Nick Cogley [the captain], Sam Baker [‘The Missing Link’], Otto Fries, Kewpie Morgan, Akka the chimpanzee

Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated, production; distributed by Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated. / Scenario by Darryl Francis Zanuck (Darryl F. Zanuck), from a screen story by Darryl Francis Zanuck (Darryl F. Zanuck). Assistant director, Sandy Roth. Cinematography by Dev Jennings (J. Devereaux Jennings). Assistant cameraman, Fred West. / © 20 April 1927 by Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated [LP23882]. Premiered 6 May 1927 in New York, New York. General release, 1 September 1927. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Silent film.

Comedy.

Survival status: Print exists in the Gosfilmofond film archive.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Animals: Chimpanzees, Monkeys

Listing updated: 7 October 2012.

References: Kerr-Silent p. 295; Lee-Not p. 125; Marrero-Vintage p. 14.