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Court Martial (1928 film)

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'Court Martial' is a 1928 Amercan silent film war drama film directed by George B. Seitz, starring Jack Holt, Betty Compson as Belle Starr, and Frank Austin as Abraham Lincoln, and released by Columbia Pictures.

A foreign release print of the film survives and is preserved in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. It was shown at the annual Cinecon Classic Film Festival in 2014.[http://www.cinecon.org/cinecon_schedule.html Cinecon 50 Film Schedule]

Publicity for the film stated that several sequences were shot in early Technicolor,'Exhibitors Herald and Moving Picture World', July 14, 1928, p14 but these do not appear to have survived.

Cast



*Jack Holt as James Camden

*Betty Compson as Belle Starr

*Pat Harmon as Bull

*Doris Hill as General's Daughter

*Frank Lackteen as 'Devil' Dawson

*Frank Austin as President Abraham Lincoln

*George Cowl as General Robert Hackathorne

*Zack Williams as Negro

Preservation status



*Prints held at National Archives of Canada, Cineteca del Friuli (Gemona), Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), and 16mm at Library of Congress.[https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.3012/default.html The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:'Court-Martial']

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