''Marked Money'' is a 1928 American synchronized sound

action film The action film is a film genre that predominantly features chase sequences, fights, shootouts, explosions, and stunt work. The specifics of what constitutes an action film has been in scholarly debate since the 1980s. While some scholars such as D ...

directed by

Spencer Gordon Bennet Spencer Gordon Bennet (January 5, 1893 – October 8, 1987) was an American film producer and director. Known as the "King of Serial Directors", he directed more film serials than any other director. Biography Born in Brooklyn, New York, Benne ...

and starring Tom Keene, Tom Kennedy and Virginia Bradford.Munden p.493 While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using the

RCA Photophone RCA Photophone was the trade name given to one of four major competing technologies that emerged in the American film industry in the late 1920s for synchronizing electrically recorded audio to a motion picture image. RCA Photophone was an op ...

sound-on-film process. The film's sets were designed by the

art director Art director is a title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, live-action and animated film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supe ...

Edward C. Jewell.

Cast

* Frank Coghlan Jr. as Boy * Tom Keene as Clyde * Tom Kennedy as Bill Clemons *

Bert Woodruff William Herbert "Bert" Woodruff (April 29, 1856 – June 14, 1934) was an American actor of the silent era. Woodruff was born in Peoria, Illinois, and was the son of Mrs. Hannah Woodruff. He performed on stage before he began acting on film, de ...

as Capt. Fairchild * Virginia Bradford as Grace Fairchild *

Maurice Black Maurice Black (January 14, 1891 – January 18, 1938) was an American character actor known for his portrayal of mobsters. He appeared in more than 100 films from 1928 to 1938, when he died of pneumonia, four days after his 47th birthday. ...

as Donovan * Jack Richardson as Scudder * Mark Hamilton as Mariner Bill

References

Bibliography

* Munden, Kenneth White. ''The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1''. University of California Press, 1997.

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* 1928 films 1920s action films 1920s English-language films American silent feature films American action films Films directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet American black-and-white films Pathé Exchange films 1920s American films Synchronized sound films English-language action films {{Silent-film-stub

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