Brass Knuckles is a surviving 1927 synchronized sound crime film directed by Lloyd Bacon and starring Monte Blue, Betty Bronson and William Russell. 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 film was produced and distributed by Warner Brothers Pictures.[1][2]

Brass Knuckles
Directed byLloyd Bacon
Henry Blanke(ass't director)
Written byHarvey Gates
Produced byWarner Brothers
CinematographyNorbert Brodine
Distributed byWarner Brothers
Release date
December 3, 1927
Running time
68 minutes
CountryUSA
LanguagesSound (Synchronized)
(English Intertitles)

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Preservation status edit

  • This film survives, like several late Warner Brothers and First National silents, in the Italian archive Cineteca Italiana, Milan.[3] Its trailer is held in the Library of Congress collection.[4]

References edit

  1. ^ Brass Knuckles at silentera.com
  2. ^ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films 1893-1993:Brass Knuckles
  3. ^ The Library of Congress/FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:Brass Knuckles
  4. ^ [trailer]..Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress, (<-book title) p. 21 c.1978 by The American Film Institute

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