Stool Pigeon is a 1928 American silent crime film directed by Renaud Hoffman and starring Olive Borden, Charles Delaney and Lucy Beaumont.[1]
Cast
- Olive Borden as Goldie
- Charles Delaney as Jimmy Wells
- Lucy Beaumont as Mrs. Wells
- Louis Natheaux as Butch
- Ernie Adams as Dropper
- Al Hill as Red
- Robert Wilber as Augie
- Clarence Burton as Mike Shields
Preservation and status
As of January 2017, a complete copy of the film was archived at Lobster Films in Paris.[2] Lobster Films restores and distributes vintage film.[3] However, in 2020, a fire occurred at an apartment building in Paris where Lobster Film's had temporarily stored highly flammable nitrate film reels without air conditioning during a heatwave.[3] Up to 1,953 nitrate film reels were estimated as being stored at the location when the fire occurred,[4] but film titles were not reported.
References
- ^ Munden p.767
- ^ "Stool Pigeon [motion picture]". American Silent Feature Film Survival Database. Retrieved October 31, 2023.
- ^ a b "Serge Bromberg Sentenced in 2020 Film Fire Case". Animation World Network. Retrieved November 22, 2023.
- ^ Goodfellow, Melanie (November 25, 2022). "Former Annecy Director Serge Bromberg Faces Prison Term For Deadly Film Reels Fire". Deadline. Retrieved November 22, 2023.
Bibliography
- Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.
External links
- Stool Pigeon at IMDb
- Stool Pigeon at the TCM Movie Database
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