Court Martial (1928 film)

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Court-Martial
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Directed by George B. Seitz
Written by Elmer Blaney Harris  (story)
Anthony Coldeway  (scenario)
Mort Blumenstock (titles)
Produced by Harry Cohn
Starring Jack Holt
Betty Compson
Cinematography Joseph Walker
Edited by Arthur Roberts
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release date
  • August 12, 1928 (1928-08-12)
Running time
65 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Court Martial is a 1928 American silent film war drama film directed by George B. Seitz, starring Jack Holt, Betty Compson as Belle Starr, and Frank Austin as Abraham Lincoln, and released by Columbia Pictures.

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A foreign release print of the film survives and is preserved in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. It was shown at the annual Cinecon Classic Film Festival in 2014. [1]

Publicity for the film stated that several sequences were shot in early Technicolor, [2] but these do not appear to have survived.

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