Is Zat So?
Is Zat So? is a lost[2][3] 1927 American silent comedy film directed by Alfred E. Green and starring George O'Brien, Edmund Lowe and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. It was produced and distributed by the Fox Film Corporation.[4][5][6]
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| Directed by | Alfred E. Green |
| Written by | Philip Klein |
| Based on | the 1925 play Is Zat So? by James Gleason and Richard Taber[1] |
| Produced by | William Fox |
| Starring | George O'Brien Edmund Lowe Katherine Perry Douglas Fairbanks Jr. |
| Cinematography | George Schneiderman |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Fox Film Corporation |
Release date | May 15, 1927 |
Running time | 70 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | Silent English intertitles |
The film was based on a 1925 play of the same by James Gleason and Richard Taber and produced by George Brinton McLellan which ran for 634 performances at the 39th Street Theatre in New York and opened in the same year at the Adelphi Theatre[7][8] The play starred Gleason, Sidney Riggs and a pre-talkies Robert Armstrong.
Cast
- George O'Brien as Ed 'Chick' Cowan
- Edmund Lowe as Hap Hurley
- Katherine Perry as Marie Mestretti
- Cyril Chadwick as Robert Parker
- Doris Lloyd as Sue Parker
- Diane Ellis as Florence Hanley
- Richard Maitland as Major Fitz Stanley
- Douglas Fairbanks Jr. as G. Clifton Blackburn
- Philippe De Lacy as Little Jimmy Parker
- Jack Herrick as Gas House Duffy
See also
References
- Is Zat So? on Broadway January 1925-July 1926
- The Library of Congress/FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:Is Zat So?
- Is Zat So? at TheGreatStars.com; Lost Films Wanted(Wayback Machine)
- Is Zat So? at silentera.com
- The AFI Catalog of Feature Films 1893-1993:Is Zat So?
- Pictorial History of the Silent Screen, p.305 by Daniel Blum c.1953
- Is Zat So? - NitrateVille Vintage Film website
- Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak, Is Zat So? (1925) - The Oxford Companion to American Theatre (3 ed), Oxford University Press (2004) eISBN 9780199916474
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