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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A Thief in the Dark
(1928) United States of America
B&W : Six reels / 5937 feet
Directed by Albert Ray

Cast: George Meeker [Ernest], Doris Hill [Elise], Gwen Lee [Flo], Marjorie Beebe [Jeanne], Michael Vavitch [Professor Xeno], Noah Young [Monk], Charles Belcher [Duke], Raymond Turner [Beauregard], Erville Anderson [Armstrong], James Mason, Yorke Sherwood, Frank Rice, Tom McGuire

Fox Film Corporation production; distributed by Fox Film Corporation. / Scenario by C. Graham Baker, from a screen story by [?] Albert Ray and Kenneth Hawks or Albert Ray and Andrew Bennison? Assistant director, Horace Hough. Cinematography by Arthur Edeson. Film editor, Jack Dennis. Intertitles written by William Kernell. Presented by William Fox. / © 13 April 1928 by Fox Film Corporation [LP25172]. Released 20 May 1928. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Silent film.

Drama: Mystery.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 2 December 2023.

References: ClasIm-220 p. 43 : Website-AFI; Website-ASFFDb.