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Figures Don’t Lie
(1927) United States of America
B&W : Six reels / 5280 feet
Directed by Edward Sutherland (Eddie Sutherland)

Cast: Esther Ralston [Janet Wells], Richard Arlen [Bob Blewe], Ford Sterling [‘Howdy’ Jones], Doris Hill [Mamie], Blanche Payson [Mrs. Jones], Natalie Kingston [Dolores]

Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation. / Associate producer, B.P. Schulberg. Scenario by Ethel Doherty and Louise Long, from the adaptation by Grover Jones of a screen story by B.F. Zeidman. Cinematography by Alfred Gilks. Intertitles written by Herman Mankiewicz. Presented by Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky. / © 8 October 1927 by Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation [LP24493]. Released 8 October 1927. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Silent film.

Comedy: Romance.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 28 January 2010.

References: Drew-Speaking pp. 4, 202, 203, 284 : Website-AFI.