The Love Racket is a 1929 American sound (All-Talking) crime drama film produced and distributed by First National Pictures. It was directed by William A. Seiter and starred Dorothy Mackaill. It is based on a Broadway play, The Woman on the Jury by Bernard K. Burns, and is a remake of a 1924 silent film of the same name which starred Bessie Love.[1][2] The film is now considered lost.[3][4]
Myrtle Stedman reprises her role from the 1924 silent version in this film.
Cast
- Dorothy Mackaill as Betty Brown
- Sidney Blackmer as Fred Masters
- Edmund Burns as George Wayne
- Myrtle Stedman as Marion Masters
- Edwards Davis as Judge Davis
- Webster Campbell as Prosecuting Attorney
- Clarence Burton as Defense Attorney
- Alice Day as Grace Pierce
- Edith Yorke as Mrs. Pierce
- Martha Mattox as Mrs. Slade
- Tom Mahoney as Detective McGuire
- Jack Curtis as John Gerrity
Music
The film featured a theme song entitled "Because You Belong To Me" which was composed by Felix Bernard, Stanley F. Weiner and J. Warren Morse.
See also
References
- ^ White Munden, Kenneth (1997). The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films, 1921-1930. University of California Press. p. 460. ISBN 0-520-20969-9.
- ^ The Woman on the Jury as produced on Broadway at the Eltinge 42nd Street theatre, August 15, 1923; IBDb.com
- ^ The Love Racket at Arne Andersen's Lost Film Files: First National Pictures (1929)
- ^ The Library of Congress/FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:..The Love Racket
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