The Broken Gate (1927 film)

The Broken Gate
Directed by	James C. McKay
Written by	Jack Natteford
Based on	The Broken Gate by Emerson Hough
Starring	Dorothy Phillips William Collier Jr. Jean Arthur
Cinematography	Joseph A. Du Bray Stephen S. Norton
Edited by	Merrill G. White
Production company	Tiffany Pictures
Distributed by	Tiffany Pictures
Release date	February 15, 1927 (1927-02-15)
Running time	60 minutes
Country	United States
Languages	Silent English intertitles

The Broken Gate is a lost ^{[1] [2]} 1927 American silent drama film directed by James C. McKay and starring Dorothy Phillips, William Collier Jr. and Jean Arthur. It was produced and distributed by Tiffany Pictures. ^{[3] [4]}

This film is a remake of a 1920 lost film The Broken Gate .

Cast

• Dorothy Phillips as Aurora Lane
• William Collier Jr. as Don Lane
• Jean Arthur as Ruth Hale
• Phillips Smalley as Judge Lucius Henderson
• Florence Turner as Miss Julia
• Gibson Gowland as Ephraim Adamson
• Charles A. Post as Johnny Adamson
• Caroline Rankin as Mrs. Ephraim Adamson
• Vera Lewis as Invalid
• Jack McDonald as Sheriff Dan Cummins
• Charles Thurston as Constable Joe Tarbush
• Adele Watson as Gossip

References

1. The Library of Congress/FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:The Broken Gate
2. The Broken Gate at Arn Andersen's Lost Film Files:lost Tiffany films - 1927
3. The AFI Catalog of Feature Films 1893-1993:The Broken Gate
4. The Broken Gate at silentera.com

Bibliography

• Connelly, Robert B. The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2. December Press, 1998.
• Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.

External links

• The Broken Gate at IMDb
• series of cluster stills(archived)