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Everything but the Truth
Also known as [Everything but Lies]
(1920) United States of America
B&W : Five reels / 4775 feet
Directed by Eddie Lyons and Lee Moran

Cast: Eddie Lyons [Billy Hervey], Lee Moran [Jack Elton], Katherine Lewis [Helen Gray], Anne Cornwall [Annabelle Elton], Nelson McDowell [the doctor], Willis Marks [the bookkeeper], Elizabeth Witt [the aunt]

The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated, production; distributed by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated. / Scenario by Philip Hurn, from the short story “Everything but the Truth” by Edgar Franklin (Edgar Franklin Stearns). Cinematography by Alfred Gosden. / © 21 May 1920 by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated [LP15152]. Released 31 May 1920. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Lyons’ and Moran’s first feature film.

Comedy-Drama.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.1209.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 2 February 2010.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.1209; Hirschhorn-Universal p. 35 : Website-AFI.