''Stool Pigeon'' is a 1928 American silent

crime film Crime film is a film belonging to the crime fiction genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and fiction. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine with many other genres, such as Drama (film and television), dr ...

directed by

Renaud Hoffman Renaud Hoffman (1895–1952) was a German-born American film director, screenwriter and producer of the silent and early sound era. He directed the 1929 musical '' Blaze o' Glory''.Bradley p.76 Selected filmography * '' Strangers of the Night ...

and starring

Olive Borden Olive Mary Borden (July 14, 1907 – October 1, 1947) was an American film and stage actress who began her career during the silent film era. She was nicknamed "the Joy Girl", after playing the lead in the 1927 film of that same title. Borden ...

Charles Delaney Charles Delaney (August 9, 1892 – August 31, 1959) was an American actor. Biography Delaney was born in New York City in 1892. He was originally a motor mechanic and having learned to fly during World War I, he started doing flying vaud ...

and Lucy Beaumont.

Cast

as Goldie *

as Jimmy Wells * Lucy Beaumont as Mrs. Wells *

Louis Natheaux Louis Natheaux (born Louis F. Natho; December 10, 1894 – August 23, 1942) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than eighty films between 1919 and 1942. Biography Louis F. Natho was born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas on December 10, 1 ...

as Butch * Ernie Adams as Dropper * Al Hill as Red * Robert Wilber as Augie *

Clarence Burton Clarence Forrest Burton (May 10, 1882 – December 2, 1933) was an American silent film actor. Biography Burton was born in Fort Lyon, in Benton County, Missouri and started in show business at the age of 5, playing stock and musical comedy ...

as Mike Shields

Preservation and status

As of January 2017, a complete copy of the film was archived at Lobster Films in Paris. Lobster Films restores and distributes vintage film. However, in 2020, a fire occurred at an apartment building in Paris where Lobster Film's had temporarily stored highly flammable nitrate film reels without air conditioning during a heatwave. Up to 1,953 nitrate film reels were estimated as being stored at the location when the fire occurred, but film titles were not reported.

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.

External links

* * 1928 films 1928 crime films American silent feature films American crime films American black-and-white films Columbia Pictures films Films directed by Renaud Hoffman 1920s English-language films 1920s American films English-language crime films {{Silent-film-stub