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Forbidden Hours
(1928) United States of America
B&W : Six reels / [?] 4987 or 5011? feet
Directed by Harry Beaumont

Cast: Ramon Novarro [King Michael IV], Renée Adorée [Marie de Floriet], Dorothy Cumming [Queen Alexia], Edward Connelly [the prime minister], Roy D’Arcy [Duke Nicky], Mitzi Cummings [Princess Ena], Alberta Vaughn [Nina]

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation. / Scenario by A.P. Younger, from a screen story by A.P. Younger. Art direction by Cedric Gibbons. Set design by Richard Day. Cinematography by Merritt B. Gerstad. Film editor, William Hamilton. Intertitles written by John Colton. / © 16 July 1928 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation [LP25396]. Released 16 June 1928. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / A print of the film was recovered in 2000. / [?] Silent film?

Drama: Romance.

Survival status: Print exists in the Warner Brothers Classics film collection; and a trailer for the film survives [16mm reduction positive].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 1 July 2012.

References: McCaffrey-Guide p. 19; MoPicAlmanac-1929 p. 11; Weaver-Twenty p. 28 : Website-AFI.