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Directed by | Henry Lehrman |
Written by | Lewis Allen Browne Henry Lehrman Owen Moore Tom Bret E.V. Durling H.I. Phillips Will B. Johnstone John P. Medbury |
Produced by | Lewis J. Selznick Myron Selznick |
Starring | Owen Moore Pauline Garon Tom Wilson |
Cinematography | Jules Cronjager |
Edited by | George M. Arthur |
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Distributed by | Select Pictures |
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Running time | 70 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
Reported Missing is a 1922 American silent comedy film directed by Henry Lehrman and starring Owen Moore, Pauline Garon, and Tom Wilson. [1] [2]
As described in a film magazine review, [3] Richard Boyd comes into possession of the Boyd Shipping Company through inheritance. The company has an option to obtain a huge fleet of ships much sought after by Young, a scheming Asian shipping magnate. Boyd, a habitual idler, is disinterested in the matter until Pauline makes him get down to business and save these ships for America. Young kidnaps Richard and Pauline on a ship and puts out to sea. The ship becomes stranded. Richard's uncle demands that Young return them. Young takes Pauline captive on his ship while Richard is rescued by a battleship and pursues them in a Navy hydroplane. Young wins this race, but Richard goes to his house and rescues the young woman, Young being killed in the fight.
Consistent with the practice at that time, the comic role of the valet Sam was played by Wilson in blackface. The use of white actors in blackface for black character roles in Hollywood films did not begin to decline until the late 1930s, although it is now considered highly offensive. [4]
Reported Missing is a lost film with only a fragment remaining. [2]
Owen Moore was an Irish-born American actor, appearing in more than 279 movies spanning from 1908 to 1937.
Marie Pauline Garon was a Canadian silent film, feature film, and stage actress.
Film Booking Offices of America (FBO), registered as FBO Pictures Corp., was an American film studio of the silent era, a midsize producer and distributor of mostly low-budget films. The business began in 1918 as Robertson-Cole, an Anglo-American import-export company. Robertson-Cole began distributing films in the United States that December and opened a Los Angeles production facility in 1920. Late that year, R-C entered into a working relationship with East Coast financier Joseph P. Kennedy. A business reorganization in 1922 led to its assumption of the FBO name, first for all its distribution operations and ultimately for its own productions as well. Through Kennedy, the studio contracted with Western leading man Fred Thomson, who grew by 1925 into one of Hollywood's most popular stars. Thomson was just one of several silent screen cowboys with whom FBO became identified.
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