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 Truthful Liar
(1924) United States of America
B&W : Two reels
Directed by Hampton Del Ruth

Cast: Will Rogers [Ambassador Alfalfa Doolittle], Jack Ackroyd [Flunky], Richard Pennell (R.O. Pennell) [the king], Jack Cooper [the prince], Beth Darlington [Mary Doolittle], Madge Hunt [Agatha Doolittle], William Gillespie [Count De Cassarole], Sammy Brooks [a townsman]

Hal Roach Studios, Incorporated, production; distributed by Pathé Exchange, Incorporated. / Produced by Hal Roach. Cinematography by Robert V. Doran. Film editor, Thomas J. Crizer. Intertitles written by H.M. Walker. / Released 17 August 1924. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was banned by the British Board of Film Censors in 1924.

Comedy.

Survival status: Print exists in a private film collection [small-gauge reduction positive].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 29 August 2011.

References: Robertson-British p. 186; Weaver-Twenty p. 309 : Website-IMDb.

Home video: DVD.