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 Sawdust Paradise
(1928) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels / 6165 feet
Directed by Luther Reed

Cast: Esther Ralston [Hallie], Reed Howes [Butch], Hobart Bosworth [Isaiah], Tom Maguire [Danny], George French [Tanner], Alan Roscoe [Ward], Mary Alden [mother], J.W. Johnston [the district attorney], Frank Brownlee [the sheriff], Helen Hunt [the organist]

Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation. / Scenario by Louise Long, from a screen story by George Manker Watters. Cinematography by Harold Rosson. Film editor, Otto Lovering. Intertitles written by Julian Johnson. Presented by Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky. / © 4 September 1928 by Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation [LP25594]. / Movietone 35mm spherical 1.20:1 format (sound version) and Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format (silent version). Western Electric Movietone sound-on-film synchronized sound system. / Silent film, with synchronized music and sound effects.

Drama.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Circuses

Listing updated: 31 January 2025.

References: Drew-Speaking p. 284; Sweeney-Coming p. 130 : Website-AFI; Website-ASFFDb.