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The Fighting Blade
(1923) United States of America
B&W : Nine reels / 8729 feet
Directed by John S. Robertson

Cast: Richard Barthelmess [Karl Van Kerstenbrook], Lee Baker [Earl of Staversham], Morgan Wallace [Lord Robert Erisey], Bradley Barker [Watt Musgrove], Frederick Burton [Cromwell], Stuart Sage [Viscount Carlsford], Philip Tead [Lord Trevor], Walter Horton [Bob Ayskew], Dorothy Mackaill [Thomsine Musgrove], Allyn King [Charlotte Musgrove], Marcia Harris [Joan Laycock]

Inspiration Pictures, Incorporated, production; distributed by Associated First National Pictures, Incorporated. / Scenario by Josephine Lovett, from the novel The Fighting Blade by Beulah Marie Dix. Art direction by Everett Shinn. Technical direction by William B. Ihnen. Cinematography by George Folsey. Film editor, William Hamilton. Intertitles written by Don Bartlett. Presented by Charles H. Duell. / © 25 September 1923 by Inspiration Pictures, Incorporated [LP19446]. Released 10 September 1923. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama: Historical.

Survival status: Print exists in the UCLA Film and Television Archive film archive.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 29 January 2010.

References: Katchmer-Eighty pp. 19, 21 : Website-AFI; Website-NFPF.