The Missing Link (1927 film)

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The Missing Link
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Swedish release poster
Directed by Charles Reisner
Written by
Starring
Cinematography Devereaux Jennings
Music by Erno Rapee
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros.
Release date
  • May 6, 1927 (1927-05-06)
Running time
70 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguagesSound (Synchronized)
(English Intertitles)
Budget$313,000 [1]
Box office$608,000 [1]

The Missing Link is a 1927 American synchronized sound comedy film directed by Charles Reisner and starring Syd Chaplin, Ruth Hiatt and Tom McGuire. [2] While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using the Vitaphone sound-on-disc process. The title of the film is a reference to the so-called "missing link" that connects man and the ape.

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Plot

Cast

Reception

The film was a major production by Warner Brothers, with a budget of $313,000. It earned $608,000, more than any other silent film released by the studio that season. [2]

The New York Times critic Mordaunt Hall praised the film, observing "there are sequences in this comic contraption that are almost ceirtain to appeal to anybody". [3]

Box Office

According to Warner Bros records the film earned $425,000 domestically and $163,000 foreign. [1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Warner Bros financial information in The William Schaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1-31 p 5 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551
  2. 1 2 Stein 2010, p. 151.
  3. ↑ Stein 2010, p. 150.

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