Burning Daylight is a 1928 silent dramatic action adventure film directed by Charles Brabin and starring Milton Sills and Doris Kenyon, a real-life married couple. It was produced and distributed by First National Pictures and based on the 1910 novel of the same name by Jack London. It was previously filmed by Metro Pictures in 1920.[1][2]
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| Directed by | Charles Brabin |
| Written by | Louis Stevens |
| Based on | Burning Daylight by Jack London |
| Produced by | Wid Gunning Richard A. Rowland First National Pictures |
| Starring | Milton Sills Doris Kenyon |
| Cinematography | Sol Polito |
| Edited by | Frank Ware |
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| Distributed by | First National Pictures |
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Running time | 72 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | Silent English titles |
Cast
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- Milton Sills as Burning Daylight
- Doris Kenyon as 'The Virgin'
- Arthur Stone as 'French Louie'
- Guinn "Big Boy" Williams as 'English Harry'
- Lawford Davidson as Morton
- Jane Winton as Martha Fairbee
- Stuart Holmes as Blake
- Edmund Breese as John Dossett
- Howard Truesdale as Letton
- Frank Hagney as Johnson
- Harry Northrup as The Stranger
Preservation status
edit- The film is preserved in the Library of Congress collection.[3][4] The film is also available on the DVD format.[5]
References
edit- ^ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films:..Burning Daylight
- ^ Burning Daylight at silentera.com
- ^ Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress, (<-book title) p.24 c.1978 by the American Film Institute
- ^ The Library of Congress/FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:..Burning Daylight
- ^ Burning Daylight, dvd, silentera.com
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