Finger Prints (film)

Finger Prints
Finger Prints
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Directed by	Lloyd Bacon
Written by	C. Graham Baker; Edward Clark; Arthur Somers Roche
Starring	Louise Fazenda; John T. Murray; Helene Costello
Cinematography	Virgil Miller
Production; company	Warner Bros.
Release date	January 8, 1927;
Running time	70 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Finger Prints is a 1927 American silent comedy crime film directed by Lloyd Bacon and starring Louise Fazenda, John T. Murray, and Helene Costello.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Cast

Louise Fazenda as Dora Traynor
John T. Murray as Homer Fairchild
Helene Costello as Jacqueline Norton
Myrna Loy as Vamp
George Nichols as S.V. Sweeney
Martha Mattox as Mother Malone
Franklin Pangborn as The Bandoline Kid
William Demarest as Cuffs Egan
Bob Perry as Hard-Boiled Ryan
Edgar Kennedy as O.K. McDuff
Jerry Miley as Chicago Ed
Joseph B. Stone as Cabbage Head McCarthy
Warner Richmond as 'Annie Laurie' Andy Norton
Lew Harvey as Secret Service Man
William Desmond

Preservation

With no prints of Finger Prints located in any film archives,^[4] it is a lost film.^[5] It is referenced in the dialogue of Hitchcock's 1929 film Blackmail, in which a detective says he wants to see the picture, though he expects the details to be wrong. His girlfriend disagrees, saying, "I hear they got a real criminal to direct it. Just to be on the safe side."^[6] However, the director, Lloyd Bacon, who had a long and distinguished career, did not have any known criminal record.

References

^ Leider, Emily W. Myrna Loy: The Only Good Girl in Hollywood. University of California Press, 2011. p. 316.
^ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Finger Prints
^ Progressive Silent Film List: Finger Prints at silentera.com
^ The Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Finger Prints
^ Finger Prints at Arne Andersen's Lost Film Files: Lost Warner Bros. films - 1927 Archived December 20, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
^ Hitchcock, Alfred. "Blackmail". Tubi.tv. Retrieved July 27, 2024.

External links

Finger Prints at IMDb
Synopsis at AllMovie

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[1] Leider, Emily W. Myrna Loy: The Only Good Girl in Hollywood. University of California Press, 2011. p. 316.

[2] The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Finger Prints

[3] Progressive Silent Film List: Finger Prints at silentera.com

[4] The Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Finger Prints

[5] Finger Prints at Arne Andersen's Lost Film Files: Lost Warner Bros. films - 1927 Archived December 20, 2014, at the Wayback Machine

[6] Hitchcock, Alfred. "Blackmail". Tubi.tv. Retrieved July 27, 2024.

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