High Steppers

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Directed by Edwin Carewe
Written byFinis Fox
Lois Leeson
Based onHeirs Apparent
by Philip Gibbs
Produced byEdwin Carewe
Starring Lloyd Hughes
Mary Astor
Dolores del Río
Cinematography Robert Kurrle
Distributed by First National Pictures
Release date
  • March 14, 1926 (1926-03-14) [1]
Running time
70 mins.
CountryUnited States
Language Silent (English intertitles)

High Steppers is a 1926 American silent drama film produced and directed by Edwin Carewe and distributed by First National Pictures. The film is based on the novel Heirs Apparent by Philip Gibbs. [1] [2]

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Plot

Julian Perryam gets thrown out of Oxford University and returns to the family estate outside London. He discovers that his sister and his mother are caught up in the "jazz" life and their father, who's the editor of a tabloid scandal rag, is too busy to notice. He also discovers that his sister is in love with the scoundrel son of his father's publisher, Victor Buckland. Learning that Buckland is actually an embezzler, Julian gets a job as a reporter on a muckraking publication and sets out to expose Buckland.

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Preservation

With no prints of High Steppers located in any film archives, it is considered a lost film. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "High Steppers". AFI Catalog of Feature Films . American Film Institute . Retrieved January 1, 2016.
  2. Progressive Silent Film List: High Steppers at silentera.com
  3. The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: High Steppers