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Chip of the Flying U
(1926) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels / 6596 feet
Directed by Lynn Reynolds

Cast: Hoot Gibson [Chip Bennett], Virginia Brown Faire [Doctor Della Whitmore], Philo McCullough [Duncan Whittaker], Nora Cecil [Doctor Cecil Grantham], De Witt Jennings (DeWitt Jennings) [J.G. Whitmore], Harry Todd [Weary], Pee Wee Holmes [Shorty], Mark Hamilton [Slim], Willie Sung [the Chinese cook], Steve Clements [an Indian]

Universal Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Universal Pictures Corporation [Universal-Jewel]. / Scenario by Lynn Reynolds and Harry Dittmar, from the novel Chip of the Flying U by B.M. Bower (Bertha Muzzy Sinclair). Cinematography by Harry Neumann. / © 2 March 1926 by Universal Pictures Corporation [LP22455]. Released 14 March 1926. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The novel was previously filmed as Chip of the Flying U (1914). The novel was subsequently filmed as Chip of the Flying U (1939).

Comedy: Western.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 11 November 2018.

References: Edmonds-BigU pp. 115, 141; Hirschhorn-Universal p. 53 : Website-AFI.

Home video: DVD.