Soft Shoes

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Directed by Lloyd Ingraham
Written by Harry Carey
Hunt Stromberg
Story by Harvey Gates
Produced by Hunt Stromberg
Starring Harry Carey
Cinematography Sol Polito
Edited by Harry L. Decker
Distributed by Producers Distributing Corporation
Release date
  • January 1, 1925 (1925-01-01)
Running time
60 minutes
CountryUnited States
Language Silent (English intertitles)

Soft Shoes is a 1925 American drama film directed by Lloyd Ingraham and featuring Harry Carey. [1]

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Plot

Soft Shoes (1925)

As described in a film magazine review, [2] Pat Halahan, Sheriff of Boulder, goes to San Francisco to see the sights. He meets Faith O’Day, in league with a gang of crooks. Faith decides to go straight, and Pat with the aid of the police rounds up the gang in a last desperate encounter.

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Preservation

A copy of Soft Shoes survives at Národní Filmový Archiv in Prague and was screened at San Francisco Silent Film Festival on May 31, 2018. [3] [4]

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References

  1. Progressive Silent Film List: Soft Shoes at silentera.com
  2. "New Pictures: Soft Shoes", Exhibitors Herald, 20 (9): 52, February 21, 1925, retrieved December 1, 2021
  3. "Soft Shoes". American Silent Feature Film Survival Database. Retrieved January 9, 2014.
  4. "Soft Shoes". San Francisco Silent Film Festival. Retrieved May 8, 2018.