Devil on Deck

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Devil on Deck
Directed by Wallace Fox
Written by Bernard McConville
Produced by George W. Weeks
Starring Molly O'Day
Reed Howes
Cinematography William Nobles
Edited by Fred Bain
Distributed by Sono Art-World Wide Pictures
Release date
January 1, 1932
Running time
70 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Devil on Deck is a 1932 Pre-code talking film directed by Wallace Fox and starring Reed Howes and Molly O'Day. It was produced and distributed by Sono Art-World Wide Pictures, a B-movie studio that turned out occasionally some successful pictures like The Great Gabbo . [1]

Contents

Story

As this is a lost film, not even the AFI has any story or plot on it. By the promotional material that survives, it's a typical South Seas story found all over the silent film era just a few years before sound arrived. The cast is made up mostly of silent film veterans. [2]

Cast

Preservation status

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References

  1. The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Devil on Deck
  2. Pictorial History of the Talkies, p.61 by Daniel Blum, c.1958(original printing)
  3. Internet Movie Database, Trivia section, IMDb.com