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My Friend from India
(1927) United States of America
B&W : Six reels / 5750 feet
Directed by E. Mason Hopper

Cast: Franklin Pangborn [William Valentine], Elinor Fair [Bernice], Ben Hendricks Jr. [Charles], Ethel Wales [Arabella Mott], Jeanette Loff [Marion], Tom Ricketts [Judge Belmore], Louis Natheaux [R. Austin Webb], Tom Dugan [the bogus Hindu prince], George Ovey [the Hindu prince’s valet], Edgar Norton

DeMille Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Pathé Exchange, Incorporated. / Scenario by Rex Taylor, from the adaptation by Rex Taylor of the play My Friend from India by Henry A. Du Souchet. Art direction by Charles Cadwallader. Costume design by Adrian (Gilbert Adrian). Assistant director, E.J. Babille. Cinematography by Dewey Wrigley. Film editor, James Morley. / © 18 December 1927 by Pathé Exchange, Incorporated [LP24764]. Released 19 December 1927. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The play was previously filmed as My Friend from India (1914). / Silent film.

Comedy.

Survival status: Print exists.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 11 August 2011.

References: Website-AFI.

Home video: DVD.