A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2024 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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Freedom of the Press
(1928) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels / 6476 feet
Directed by George Melford

Cast: Lewis Stone [Daniel Steele], Marceline Day [June Westcott], Malcolm McGregor [Bill Ballard], Henry B. Walthall [John Ballard], Robert E. O’Connor [Boss Maloney], Thomas Ricketts [Wicks], Hayden Stevenson [Callahan], Robert Ellis [Cyrus Hazlett], Boris Baronoff [the criminal], Morgan Thorpe [the organist], Evelyn Selbie [the Italian mother], Bernard Siegel [the Italian father], Wilson Benge [the butler]

Universal Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Universal Pictures Corporation [Universal-Jewel]. / Scenario by J. Grubb Alexander, from the adaptation by J. Grubb Alexander + [Curtis Benton and J.G. Hawks] of a [?] short story? by Peter B. Kyne. Production supervision by Arthur E. Shadur. Cinematography by Ben Reynolds. Film editor, George McGuire. Intertitles written by Walter Anthony. / © 3 April 1928 by Universal Pictures Corporation [LP25125]. Released [?] 21 or 28? October 1928. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Working titles: Power of the Press, The Muzzle, Unconquered and Graft. The film may have been previewed and was reviewed under the title Graft. / Silent film.

Drama: Mystery.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 21 December 2009.

References: Hirschhorn-Universal p. 60 : ClasIm-301 p. 47 : Website-AFI.