Mad Hour

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Directed by Joseph Boyle
Written by
Based onThe Man and the Moment
by Elinor Glyn
Produced by Robert Kane
Starring
Edited by Terry O. Morse
Production
company
Distributed byFirst National Pictures
Release date
  • March 4, 1928 (1928-03-04)
Running time
70 minutes
CountryUnited States
Language Silent (English intertitles)

Mad Hour is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Joseph Boyle and starring Sally O'Neil, Alice White, and Donald Reed. [1] It was adapted from a 1914 novel by Elinor Glyn. [2] [3]

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Cast

Censorship

Like many American films of the time, Mad Hour was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. In Kansas the film, with a plot involving drinking, crime, and suicide, was banned by the Board of Review. [4]

Preservation

With no prints of Mad Hour located in any film archives, [5] it is a lost film.

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References

  1. Goble p.849
  2. The AFI Catalog of Feature Films 1893-1993: Mad Hour
  3. Progressive Silent Film List: Mad Hour at silentera.com
  4. Butters, Gerald R. (2007). Banned in Kansas: Motion Picture Censorship, 1915-1966. University of Missouri Press. p. 194. ISBN   978-0-8262-1749-3.
  5. The Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Mad Hour

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