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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His Darker Self
(1924) United States of America
B&W : [?] Two or Five? reels
Directed by Jack Noble (John W. Noble) [?] + [Lloyd Hamilton]?

Cast: Lloyd Hamilton [Claude Sappington], Tom Wilson [Bill Jackson], Tom O’Malley [Uncle Eph], Lucille La Verne [Aunt Lucy], Irma Harrison [Darktown’s cleopatra], Edna May Sperl [Bill Jackson’s sweetheart], Sally Long [Claude’s sweetheart], Kate Bruce [Claude’s mother], Warren Cook [the governor], [?] Jack Oakie?

G. & H. Pictures production; distributed by [?] Producers Distributing Organization through W.W. Hodkinson Corporation? / From a screen story by Arthur Caesar. Intertitles written by Ralph Spence. Presented by Albert L. Grey. / Released 16 March 1924. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The production was shot at D.W. Griffith’s Mamaroneck studio in New York state. The film was to have featured Al Jolson and approximately six reels of footage was shot in 1923 under the title Black and White, but he quit before production was completed. Hamilton finished the film in Jolson’s role.

Comedy.

Survival status: Print exists.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: African-Americans - Beaches - Blackface - Water - Weapons: Knives

Listing updated: 12 January 2023.

References: Barry-Griffith p. 88; Bohn-Light p. 113; Brownlow-Parade p. 570 : Website-IMDb.

Home video: DVD.