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Better Days
(1927) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels / 6660 feet
Directed by Frank S. Mattison
Cast: Dorothy Devore, Mary Carr, Gareth Hughes, Gaston Glass, Jay Hunt, Reata Hoyt, Jimmy Aubrey, Sidney M. Goldin, George Ovey, Arthur Hotaling, Billy Bletcher, Sam Sidman
Pacific Pictures production; distributed by [?] First Division Pictures, Incorporated, or First Division Distributors, Incorporated? through Trinity Pictures Corporation? / Scenario by Betty Garnet, from the adapation by Cecil Burtis-Hill of a short story by Willis P. Ellery. Technical director, Ernest Hickson. Cinematography by Earle Emlay, Ernest Depew and Bert Longenecker. Film editor, Della King (Della M. King). Intertitles written by Pinto Colvig and Earle Emlay. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film received a New York state exhibition license on 23 September 1927. / Silent film.
Drama.
Synopsis: [Today’s Cinema News and Property Gazette, 16 April 1930, page 52] . . . a prodigal son’s descent down the easy path of show life, living on unredeemed pledges and the occasional grants from his impoverished mother, who is finally forced into the workhouse. In the palmy days the family owned a racehorse whose name gives the title to the picture, and they run it with happy results in a race for old timers. Meanwhile, a girl who is in the mother’s ward enters into a romance with the son’s friend, a better specimen than the son himself.
Survival status: Print exists.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 30 October 2011.
References: Website-AFI : with additional information provided by Manish Patwari.
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