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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The Social Highwayman
(1926) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels / 6107 feet
Directed by William Beaudine

Cast: John Patrick [Jay Walker], Dorothy Devore [Elsie Van Tyler], Montagu Love [Ducket Nelson], Russell Simpson [the mayor’s partner], George Pearce [Old Van Tyler], Lynn Cowan [Bobbie], James Gordon [the editor], Frank Brownlee [Simpson, the convict], Fred Kelsey [the chief of police], Charles Hill Mailes [the mayor]

Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated, production; distributed by Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated [Warner Brothers Production]. / Scenario by Edward T. Lowe Jr. and Philip Klein, from a screen story by Darryl Francis Zanuck (Darryl F. Zanuck). Assistant director, George Webster. Cinematography by John Mescall. Camera assistant, Bert Shipman. / © 15 May 1926 by Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated [LP22736]. Released 15 May 1926. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Comedy-Drama.

Survival status: Print exists in the Cineteca Italiana film archive.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 5 December 2023.

References: ClasIm-226 p. 41 : Website-AFI; Website-ASFFDb.