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  Marie Prevost and Billy Rhodes.
Photograph: The British Film Institute National Archive;
courtesy The San Francisco Silent Film Festival.
 
 
The Sideshow
(1928) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels / 5879 feet
Directed by Erle C. Kenton

Cast: Marie Prevost [Queenie Parker], Ralph Graves [‘Gentleman’ Ted Rogers], Little Billy (Little Billy Rhodes) [P.W. Melrose], Alan Roscoe [Ghandi], Pat Harmon [Bowen, the canvas boss], Texas Madesen [the tall man], Martha McGruger [the fat lady], Steve Clemento (Steve Clemente) [the knifethrower], Janet Ford [his assistant], [?] Paul Dismute or Peter Dismuki? [the armless man], Bert Price [the tattooed man], Chester Morton [the thin man], Jacques Ray [the fire eater], Joe Bordeaux [the roustabout]

Columbia Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Columbia Pictures Corporation. / Produced by Jack Cohn. Scenario by Howard J. Green, from a screen story by Howard J. Green. Art direction by Harrison Wiley. Technical direction by Edward Shulter. Circus setting consultant, Al G. Barnes. Assistant director, Buddy Coleman (Charles C. Coleman). Cinematography by Joseph Walker. / © 15 March 1929 by Columbia Pictures Corporation [LP221]. Released 11 December 1928. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was released 6 January 1920 in Finland.

Drama.

Survival status: Prints exist in the UCLA Film and Television Archive film archive; and in the Centre National du Cinéma et de l’image animée [CNC] film archive [35mm positive (possibly conflated from incomplete English and French language prints)].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 5 December 2023.

References: Website-AFI; Website-ASFFDb; Website-IMDb.

 
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