Burning Daylight (1920 film)

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Burning Daylight
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Directed by Edward Sloman
Written by Albert Shelby Le Vino
Based on Burning Daylight
by Jack London
Produced by C. E. Shurtleff Inc.
Starring Mitchell Lewis
Helen Ferguson
William V. Mong
Cinematography Jackson Rose
Distributed by Metro Pictures
Release date
  • May 20, 1920 (1920-05-20)
Running time
6 reels
CountryUnited States USA
Language Silent (English intertitles)

Burning Daylight is a 1920 American silent drama film directed by Edward Sloman with Mitchell Lewis, Helen Ferguson, and William V. Mong starring. It was distributed by Metro Pictures. [1] [2] It is based on the 1910 Jack London novel of the same name.

Contents

A subsequent version, Burning Daylight was filmed in 1928 by First National Pictures. It starred Milton Sills and Doris Kenyon.

Cast

Preservation status

A print of Burning Daylight survives in a foreign archive. [3]

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References

  1. "The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Burning Daylight". Afi.com. May 20, 1920. Retrieved January 10, 2018.
  2. "Progressive Silent Film List: Burning Daylight at". silentera.com. Retrieved January 10, 2018.
  3. http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.4070/default.html The Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Burning Daylight