A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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The Early Bird
(1925) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels / 6700 feet
Directed by Charles Hines

Cast: Johnny Hines [Jimmy Burke], Sigrid Holmquist [Jean Blair], Wyndham Standing [George Fairchild], Edmund Breese [The Great La Tour], Maude Turner Gordon [Jean’s aunt], Bradley Barker [Fairchild’s accomplice], Flora Finch [Miss Quincy], Jack De Lacey [‘Flyn’]

East Coast Films, Incorporated, production; distributed on State Rights basis by East Coast Films, Incorporated. / Scenario by Victor Grandin and Argyll Campbell, from a screen story by Richard M. Friel. Set design by Tec-Art Studios. Cinematography by Charles E. Gilson, Neil Sullivan and John Geisel. Titles (intertitles written) by Ralph Spence. Presented by C.C. Burr. / © 10 December 1924 by East Coast Films, Incorporated [LP20901]. Released 1 January 1925. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Comedy-Drama.

Survival status: Print exists.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Milkmen

Listing updated: 26 December 2016.

References: FilmYearBook-1926 facing page 1, p. 39; Sweeney-Coming p. 74 : Website-AFI.

Home video: DVD.