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A Splendid Hazard
(1920) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by Allan Dwan

Cast: Henry B. Walthall [Karl Breitman], Rosemary Theby [Hedda Gobert], Norman Kerry [John Fitzgerald], Ann Forrest [Laura Killigrew], Hardee Kirkland [Admiral Killigrew], Thomas Jefferson [Doctor Ferraud], Philo McCullough [Arthur Cathewe], Jiquel Lanoe [Pierre Picard], Joseph Dowling (Joseph J. Dowling) [a French émigré]

Allan Dwan Productions production, presented by Mayflower Photoplay Corporation; distributed by First National Exhibitors’ Circuit, Incorporated. / From the novel The Splendid Hazard by Harold MacGrath. Art direction by Charles H. Kyson. Cinematography by Glen McWilliams (Glen MacWilliams). Music score arranged by Louis F. Gottschalk. / © 3 March 1921 by Mayflower Photoplay Corporation [LP17590]. Premiered June 1920 in the midwest USA. General release, September 1920. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.4212.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Duels - France

Listing updated: 4 December 2023.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.4212; Brownlow-Parade pp. 101-102 : Website-AFI; Website-ASFFDb.