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 Unwritten Law
(1925) United States of America
B&W : [?] Six or Seven? reels / 5355 feet
Directed by Edward J. Le Saint (Edward LeSaint)

Cast: Elaine Hammerstein [Helen Merritt], Forrest Stanley [Jack Wayne], William V. Mong [Colonel Merritt], Mary Alden [Miss Grant], Charles Clary [John Randall], John Fox Jr. (Johnny Fox) [the office boy], William Carroll [Mr. Smart]

Columbia Pictures Corporation production; distributed on State Rights basis by Columbia Pictures Corporation. / Scenario by Tom J. Hopkins, from a screen story by Tom J. Hopkins. Production supervision by Harry Cohn. Cinematography by Frank B. Good. Presented by Columbia Pictures Corporation. / © 15 August 1925 by Columbia Pictures Corporation [LP21732]. Released 1 August 1925. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama: Crime.

Survival status: Prints exist in the George Eastman Museum film archive [35mm positive]; and in the Library of Congress film archive.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 26 February 2023.

References: FilmYearBook-1926 pp. 59, 61 : Website-AFI; Website-GEM; Website-IMDb.

Home video: Blu-ray Disc, DVD.