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Eddie Cantor (center).
Photograph: Silent Era image collection.
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Special Delivery
(1927) United States of America
B&W : Six reels / 5524 feet
Directed by William Goodrich (Roscoe Arbuckle)
Cast: Eddie Cantor [Eddie Beagle, the mail carrier], Jobyna Ralston [Madge Warren, the girl], William Powell [‘Blackie’ Morgan, also known as Harold Jones, a get-rich-quick artist], Mabel Julienne Scott [Mrs. Jones], Jack Dougherty [Flannigan, a cop on the beat], Donald Keith [Harrigan, the fireman], Louis Stern [John Beagle]; Victor Potel [Nip, a detective], Paul Kelly [Tuck, another detective], Mary Carr [the mother], Doris Deane, [?] ? [Big Bill Johnson], [?] ? [the restaurant manager]
Famous Players-Lasky Corporation production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation. / Produced by Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky. Associate producer, B.P. Schulberg. Screen play (scenario) by John Goodrich, from a screen story by Eddie Cantor. Assistant directors, Henry Hathaway, Vernon Keays and Larry Semon. Photographed (cinematography) by Henry Hallenberger. Editor-in-chief, Louis D. Lighton. Titles (intertitles written) by George Marion Jr. Presented by Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky. / © 26 March 1927 by Famous Players-Lasky Corporation [LP23886]. Released 6 May 1927. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Paramount production number 630. The film was in production from 27 December 1926 through 4 February 1927. Cantor’s second feature film; Powell’s 23rd film. Edmonds-Arbuckle p. 235 notes that Larry Semon was brought in by Paramount to be an assistant director to Arbuckle. / Silent film.
Comedy.
Survival status: Print exists in the private film collection; and in the Library of Congress film archive [digital preservation scan].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 10 July 2024.
References: Film credits, film viewing : Edmonds-Arbuckle pp. 235, 275-276; Quirk-Powell pp. 72-74 : ClasIm-301 p. 13 : Website-AFI.
Home video: DVD.
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