The Yankee Consul (film)

The Yankee Consul
Still with Douglas MacLean and Patsy Ruth Miller
Directed byJames W. Horne
Written byRaymond Cannon
Screenplay byLewis Milestone
Raymond Griffith
Based onThe Yankee Consul
by Henry Martyn Blossom and Alfred G. Robyn
Produced byDouglas MacLean
CinematographyMax Dupont
Edited byGeorge Crone
Production
company
Distributed byAssociated Exhibitors
Release date
  • February 10, 1924 (1924-02-10)
Running time
60 minutes
6 reels, 6242 feet
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

The Yankee Consul is a 1924 American black-and-white silent comedy film directed by James W. Horne and written by Raymond Cannon.[1] With a screen adaptation by Lewis Milestone and Raymond Griffith, the film is based upon the 1903 comic opera The Yankee Consul by Alfred G. Robyn and Henry Martyn Blossom.[2][3]

The film premiered in New York City on February 10, 1924, and had general theatrical release beginning February 24, 1924. It has a 1925 release in Austria as Der Wilde Konsul.

  1. ^ "The Yankee Consul ". American Film Institute. Retrieved May 25, 2011.
  2. ^ Edith Borroff (2003). "Alfred G. Robyn". Music Melting Round: A History of Music in the United States. Scarecrow Press. pp. 102–103. ISBN 9781461716808.
  3. ^ American Film Institute (1997). The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press. p. 929. ISBN 0-520-20969-9. Retrieved June 1, 2011.