Half Shot at Sunrise

Half Shot at Sunrise
Directed byPaul Sloane
Written byAnne Caldwell
James Ashmore Creelman
Ralph Spence
Fatty Arbuckle
Produced byWilliam LeBaron
StarringBert Wheeler
Robert Woolsey
Dorothy Lee
CinematographyNicholas Musuraca
Edited byArthur Roberts
Music byMax Steiner
Production
company
Distributed byRKO Radio Pictures
Release date
  • October 4, 1930 (1930-10-04) (US)[1]
Running time
78 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$529,000[2]
Box office$929,000[2]
Half Shot at Sunrise (1930) by Paul Sloane

Half Shot at Sunrise is a 1930 American pre-Code comedy film starring the comedy duo Wheeler & Woolsey and Dorothy Lee. Their fourth film together, it was the second starring vehicle for the two, following the success of The Cuckoos, which had been released earlier in 1930. Directed by Paul Sloane, from a screenplay by Anne Caldwell, James Ashmore Creelman, Ralph Spence, and Fatty Arbuckle, which had been tailored to highlight the comedic talents of Wheeler and Woolsey. In 1958, the film entered the public domain in the United States because the claimants did not renew its copyright registration in the 28th year after publication.[3]

  1. ^ "Half Shot at Sunrise: Detail View". American Film Institute. Archived from the original on August 6, 2014. Retrieved October 5, 2016.
  2. ^ a b Richard Jewel, 'RKO Film Grosses: 1931-1951', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol 14 No 1, 1994 p56
  3. ^ Pierce, David (June 2007). "Forgotten Faces: Why Some of Our Cinema Heritage Is Part of the Public Domain". Film History: An International Journal. 19 (2): 125–43. doi:10.2979/FIL.2007.19.2.125. ISSN 0892-2160. JSTOR 25165419. OCLC 15122313. S2CID 191633078. See Note #60, pg.143