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The Amateur Gentleman
(1926) United States of America
B&W : Eight reels / 7790 feet
Directed by Sidney Olcott

Cast: Richard Barthelmess [Barnabas Barty], Dorothy Dunbar [Lady Cleone Meredith], Gardner James [Ronald Barrymaine], Nigel Barrie [Sir Mortimer Carnaby], Brandon Hurst [Peterby], John Miljan [Viscount Devenham], Edwards Davis [John Barty], Billie Bennett [Duchess of Camberhurst], Herbert Grimwood [Jaspar Gaunt], Gino Corrado [Prince Regent], Sidney de Gray [Captain Chumley], John Peters (John S. Peters) [Captain Slingsby], [?] Belle Bennett?

Inspiration Pictures, Incorporated, production; distributed by First National Pictures, Incorporated. / Scenario by Lillie Hayward, from the novel The Amateur Gentleman by Jeffrey Farnol. Technical advisor, Colonel G.L. McDonell. Cinematography by David W. Gobbett. Film editor, Tom Miranda. Intertitles written by Tom Miranda. Negative cutter, Jeanne Spencer. / Released 15 August 1926. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The novel was previously filmed as The Amateur Gentleman (1920).

Drama: Romance.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 20 August 2009.

References: FilmYearBook-1926 p. 14; Katchmer-Eighty p. 22 : Website-IMDb.