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  Lon Chaney (left), Renée Adorée and Owen Moore.
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The Blackbird
Also known as {The Black Bird}
(1926) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels / 6688 feet
Directed by Tod Browning

Cast: Lon Chaney [Dan Tate (‘The Blackbird’) and the Bishop of Limehouse], Owen Moore [Bertram P. Gladye, alias ‘West End Bertie’], Renée Adorée [Fifi Lorraine], Doris Lloyd [‘Limehouse Polly’], Andy MacLennan [The Shadow], William Weston [Red]; Eric Mayne [a sightseer], Sidney Bracy [Bertie’s first henchman], Ernie S. Adams [Bertie’s second henchman], Cecil Holland [the old man at mission], Louise Emmons [the old lady at mission], Eddie Sturgis [the bartender], Polly Moran [the flower woman], Frank Norcross [English music-hall announcer], Willie Fung [a Chinese man], Lionel Belmore, James T. Mack, Peggy Best

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation [A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture]. / Screen play (scenario) by Waldemar Young, from a screen story by Tod Browning. Settings (production design) by Cedric Gibbons and Arnold Gillespie (A. Arnold Gillespie). Wardrobe designed (costume design) by Kathleen Kay, Maude Marsh and André-Ani. Photography (cinematography) by Percy Hilburn. Film editor, Errol Taggart. Intertitles written by Joe Farnham (Joseph W. Farnham). Presented by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. / © 29 January 1926 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation [LP22381]. Released 10 January 1926. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Working title: The Mocking Bird. Principal photography was shot from 29 October 1925 through 28 November 1925.

Drama.

Survival status: Prints exist in the George Eastman Museum film archive [35mm positive]; and in private film collections [16mm reduction positive].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Chinese - Criminals - Cripples - Crutches

Listing updated: 19 February 2020.

References: Film credits, film viewing : Eames-MGM p. 23; Kobal-Fifty p. 36; Lahue-Gentlemen p. 49; Limbacher-Feature p. 24; McCaffrey-Guide p. 19; Skal-Browning pp. 293-294; Weaver-Twenty p. 77 : Website-GEM.

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