| What Price Glory? | |
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| Directed by | Raoul Walsh |
| Written by | James T. O'Donohoe (scenario) Malcolm Stuart Boylan (intertitles) |
| Based on | What Price Glory? by Maxwell Anderson and Laurence Stallings |
| Produced by | William Fox |
| Starring | Victor McLaglen Edmund Lowe Dolores del Río Phyllis Haver |
| Cinematography | Barney McGill John A. Marta John Smith |
| Music by | Ernö Rapée Lew Pollack |
| Distributed by | Fox Film Corporation |
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Running time | 116 mins. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Sound (Synchronized) (English Intertitles) |
| Box office | $4 million (U.S. and Canada rentals)[1] |
What Price Glory? is a 1926 American synchronized sound comedy drama war film produced and distributed by Fox Film Corporation and directed by Raoul Walsh. The film was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using the Movietone sound system. The film is based on the 1924 play What Price Glory by Maxwell Anderson and Laurence Stallings and was remade in 1952 as What Price Glory starring James Cagney.[2][3] Malcolm Stuart Boylan, founder of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary, was title writer on the silent Fox attraction.[4]
- ^ Cohn, Lawrence (October 15, 1990). "All Time Film Rental Champs". Variety. ISSN 0042-2738.
- ^ Arthur Gewirtz, James J. Kolb (2004). Art, Glitter, and Glitz: Mainstream Playwrights and Popular Theatre in 1920s America. Praeger/GreenwoodPlays. ISBN 0-313-32467-0.
- ^ What Price Glory the play as produced on Broadway at the Plymouth Theatre, September 5, 1924 to September 12, 1925, 435 performances; IBDB.com database
- ^ Staedeli, Thomas. "Porträt des Drehbuchautor Malcolm Stuart Boylan". Swiss Silent Film Website. Cyranos2000. Retrieved January 22, 2014.