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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Wickedness Preferred
(1928) United States of America
B&W : Six reels / 5011 feet
Directed by Hobart Henley

Cast: Lew Cody [Anthony Dare], Aileen Pringle [Kitty Dare], Mary McAllister [Babs Burton], Bert Roach [Homer Burton], George K. Arthur [Leslie], [?] Julia Griffith? [the dowager], [?] Rosebud Binkley?

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation [A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture]. / Scenario by Florence Ryerson and Colin Clements. Set design by Cedric Gibbons and Richard Day. Costume design by Gilbert Clark. Cinematography by Clyde De Vinna. Film editor, William Hamilton. Intertitles written by Robert Hopkins (Robert E. Hopkins). / © 28 January 1928 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation [LP25216]. Released 28 January 1928. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film may have been intended to be released with a synchronized soundtrack. / Silent film.

Comedy.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 28 November 2023.

References: Website-AFI; Website-ASFFDb; Website-IMDb.