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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Tell It to a Policeman
(1925) United States of America
B&W : Two reels
Directed by Fred Guiol

Cast: Glenn Tryon [the boyfriend], Blanche Mehaffey [the girlfriend], James Finlayson [the first policeman], Jack Gavin [the second policeman], Olive Borden [the female thief], Dick Gilbert, Leo Willis, Sammy Brooks

Hal Roach Studios, Incorporated, production; distributed by Pathé Exchange, Incorporated [Pathécomedy]. / Produced by Hal Roach. Cinematography by Harry W. Gerstad. Film editor, Richard C. Currier. Intertitles written by H.M. Walker and Malcolm Stuart Boylan. Presented by Hal Roach. / Released 24 May 1925. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Comedy.

Survival status: Print exists in the UCLA Film and Television Archive film archive.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 6 July 2025.

References: Website-IMDb.

Home video: DVD.