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 Sign of the Claw
(1926) United States of America
B&W : Six reels / 5925 feet
Directed by Breezy Reeves Eason (B. Reeves Eason)

Cast: Peter the Great (the dog), Edward Hearn [Robert Conway], Ethel Shannon [Mildred Bryson], Joe Bennett [Jimmie Bryson], Lee Shumway [Al Stokes]

Gotham Productions production; distributed [?] on State Rights basis? by Lumas Film Corporation. / Scenario by James Bell Smith, from a screen story by James Bell Smith. Production supervision by Renaud Hoffman. Cinematography by Ray June. Presented by Sam Sax. / © 28 June 1926 by Gotham Productions [LP22859]. Released May 1926. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama: Adventure.

Survival status: Prints exist in the Library of Congress film archive [35mm nitrate positive, 35mm acetate duplicate negative, 35mm acetate projection print]; and in the film holdings of FPA France (Lobster Films collection).

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 3 December 2024.

References: FilmYearBook-1926 p. 329 : Website-AFI; Website-ASFFDb.

Home video: DVD.