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Brass Knuckles (film)

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Brass Knuckles
Directed byLloyd Bacon
Henry Blanke(ass't director)
Written byHarvey Gates
Produced byWarner Brothers
CinematographyNorbert Brodine
Distributed byWarner Brothers
Release date
  • December 3, 1927 (1927-12-03)
Running time
68 minutes
CountryUSA
LanguagesSound (Synchronized)
(English Intertitles)

Brass Knuckles is a surviving 1927 synchronized sound crime film directed by Lloyd Bacon and starring Monte Blue, Betty Bronson and William Russell. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using the Vitaphone sound-on-disc process. The film was produced and distributed by Warner Brothers Pictures.[1][2]

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Preservation status

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  • This film survives, like several late Warner Brothers and First National silents, in the Italian archive Cineteca Italiana, Milan.[3] Its trailer is held in the Library of Congress collection.[4]

References

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  1. ^ Brass Knuckles at silentera.com
  2. ^ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films 1893-1993:Brass Knuckles
  3. ^ The Library of Congress/FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:Brass Knuckles
  4. ^ [trailer]..Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress, (<-book title) p. 21 c.1978 by The American Film Institute
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