Jaws of Steel

Jaws of Steel
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Directed byRay Enright
Written byDarryl F. Zanuck
Charles R. Condon
StarringRin Tin Tin
Jason Robards
Helen Ferguson
CinematographyBarney McGill
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros.
Release date
  • September 10, 1927 (1927-09-10)
Running time
6 reels
CountryUnited States
LanguagesSound (Synchronized)
(English Intertitles)
Budget$46,000[1]
Box office$272,000[1]
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Jaws of Steel is a 1927 American synchronized sound family adventure film directed by Ray Enright and featuring dog star Rin Tin Tin and Jason Robards Sr. 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. Warner Bros. produced and distributed the film. Darryl F. Zanuck, under the alias Gregory Rogers, wrote the story.[2][3]

Cast

Box office

According to Warner Bros records the film earned $189,000 domestic and $83,000 foreign.[1]

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Preservation status

A nitrate print of the film is archived by Filmmuseum Nederlands. The Library of Congress has a copy shown to the public in the 1990s but is incomplete missing a reel.[4][5]

References

  1. ^ a b c 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 6 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551
  2. ^ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Jaws of Steel
  3. ^ Progressive Silent Film List: Jaws of Steel at silentera.com
  4. ^ The Library of Congress/FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Jaws of Steel
  5. ^ Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress, p. 92, c.1978 by The American Film Institute
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