Burning Daylight (1928 film)

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Burning Daylight
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Directed by Charles Brabin
Written by Louis Stevens
Based on Burning Daylight
by Jack London
Produced byWid Gunning
Richard A. Rowland
First National Pictures
Starring Milton Sills
Doris Kenyon
Cinematography Sol Polito
Edited byFrank Ware
Production
company
Distributed byFirst National Pictures
Release date
  • March 11, 1928 (1928-03-11)
Running time
72 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguagesSilent
English titles

Burning Daylight is a 1928 silent dramatic action adventure film directed by Charles Brabin and starring Milton Sills and Doris Kenyon, a real-life married couple. It was produced and distributed by First National Pictures and based on the 1910 novel of the same name by Jack London. It was previously filmed by Metro Pictures in 1920. [1] [2]

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Milton Sills and Doris Kenyon during the filming of Burning Daylight, with their guests Lizzie Yu Der Ling and her husband Thaddeus White. Der Ling's visit to Hollywood.jpg
Milton Sills and Doris Kenyon during the filming of Burning Daylight, with their guests Lizzie Yu Der Ling and her husband Thaddeus White.

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References

  1. The AFI Catalog of Feature Films:..Burning Daylight
  2. Burning Daylight at silentera.com
  3. Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress, (<-book title) p.24 c.1978 by the American Film Institute
  4. The Library of Congress/FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:..Burning Daylight
  5. Burning Daylight, dvd, silentera.com