The Red Mill (film)

The Red Mill
Theatrical poster
Directed byWilliam Goodrich
(Roscoe Arbuckle)
Written byFrances Marion
Titles:
Joseph Farnham
Based onThe Red Mill
1906 musical
by Victor Herbert
Lyrics by Henry Blossom
Produced byKing Vidor (uncredited)
StarringMarion Davies
Owen Moore
Louise Fazenda
George Siegmann
CinematographyHendrik Sartov [fr]
Edited byDaniel J. Gray
Production
company
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
  • January 29, 1927 (1927-01-29)
Running time
70 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)
Budget$539,000[1]
The Red Mill (1927) by Roscoe Arbuckle

The Red Mill is a 1927 American silent comedy film directed by Roscoe Arbuckle (as William Goodrich) that starred Marion Davies and was produced by King Vidor.[2] Although Arbuckle was acquitted in the third trial for the death of Virginia Rappe, he could not obtain work in Hollywood under his own name, so he adopted the pseudonym William Goodrich for directing the comedy shorts he made under his contract with Educational Film Exchanges.[3]

  1. ^ Slide, Anthony. Silent Topics: Essays on Undocumented Areas of Silent Film. Scarecrow Press. p 26
  2. ^ "Progressive Silent Film List: The Red Mill". silentera.com. Retrieved July 30, 2008.
  3. ^ Oderman, Stuart (2005). Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle: A Biography of the Silent Film Comedian, 1887-1933. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company. pp. 201, 207. ISBN 978-0-7864-2277-7.