A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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	Madeleine Rodrigue. Photograph: La Cinémathèque française, Iconothèque; courtesy Le Giornate del Cinema Muto.

Cast: Henri Rollan [Albert], Madeleine Rodrigue [Hesta, the independent woman], Albert Préjean [the pilot], Charles Martinelli [Professor Bardin], Myla Seller [Jacqueline, the professor’s niece], Stacquet (Antoine Stacquet) [the rich industrialist], Louis Pré fils [the detective], Marcel Vallée [the thief]

Films Diamant production. / Produced by Henri Diamant-Berger. Art direction by André Foy. Assistant director, Claude Autant-Lara. Cinematography by Maurice Desfassiaux and [?] Alfred Guichard and/or Paul Guichard? Edited by René Clair. / Released [?] 26 December 1924 or 6 February 1925? / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Clair’s first film as director.

Comedy.

Survival status: Print exists in the Cinémathèque française film archive [35mm positive].

Current rights holder: (unknown)

Keywords: France: Paris

Listing updated: 25 January 2019.

References: Film viewing : Bardèche-History pp. 75, 242; Bohn-Light pp. 162, 193; Lahue-Collecting pp. 31-32; Limbacher-Feature pp. 52, 185; Shipman-Cinema p. 85 : Website-IMDb; Website-Wikipedia.

Home video: DVD.