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The Barker

1928 | 80 min | Drama · Romance

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Synopsis

The Barker is a 1928 American part-talkie pre-Code romantic drama film produced and released by First National Pictures, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Pictures, acquired in September 1928. The film was directed by George Fitzmaurice and stars Milton Sills, Dorothy Mackaill, Betty Compson, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. The Barker is a part-talkie with talking sequences and sequences with synchronized musical scoring and sound effects. According to the film review in Variety, 44 percent of the total running time featured dialogue. The film was adapted by Benjamin Glazer, Joseph Jackson and Herman J. Mankiewicz from the play by Kenyon Nicholson.

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Credits

Producer
Richard A. Rowland
Director
George Fitzmaurice
Screenplay
Joe Jackson (talent manager), Benjamin Glazer, Herman J. Mankiewicz
Director of Photography
Lee Garmes
Original Music Composer
Louis Silvers
Editor
Stuart Heisler

Cast · 7

DF

Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

George Cooper

George Cooper

Dorothy Mackaill

Dorothy Mackaill

Sylvia Ashton

Sylvia Ashton

JE

John Erwin

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