Mad Hour

Mad Hour
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Directed byJoseph Boyle
Written by
Based onThe Man and the Moment
by Elinor Glyn
Produced byRobert Kane
Starring
Edited byTerry O. Morse
Production
company
Distributed byFirst National Pictures
Release date
  • March 4, 1928 (1928-03-04)
Running time
70 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Mad Hour is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Joseph Boyle and starring Sally O'Neil, Alice White, and Donald Reed.[1] It was adapted from a 1914 novel by Elinor Glyn.[2][3]

Cast

Censorship

Like many American films of the time, Mad Hour was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. In Kansas the film, with a plot involving drinking, crime, and suicide, was banned by the Board of Review.[4]

Preservation

With no prints of Mad Hour located in any film archives,[5] it is a lost film.

See also

References

  1. ^ Goble p.849
  2. ^ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films 1893-1993: Mad Hour
  3. ^ Progressive Silent Film List: Mad Hour at silentera.com
  4. ^ Butters, Gerald R. (2007). Banned in Kansas: Motion Picture Censorship, 1915-1966. University of Missouri Press. p. 194. ISBN 978-0-8262-1749-3.
  5. ^ The Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Mad Hour

Bibliography

  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.


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