The Cop (1928 film)

The Cop
The Cop
	Lobby card
Directed by	Donald Crisp
Written by	Elliott J. Clawson; Tay Garnett; John W. Krafft
Produced by	Ralph Block
Starring	William Boyd
Cinematography	Arthur C. Miller
Production; company	DeMille Pictures Corporation
Distributed by	Pathé Exchange
Release date	August 20, 1928;
Running time	77 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

The Cop is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Donald Crisp. Due to the public apathy towards silent films, a sound version was also prepared. While the sound version has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process. At the 2nd Academy Awards in 1930, Elliott J. Clawson was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay).^[1] Prints of the film exist in several film archives including the Library of Congress.^[2]^[3]^[4]

Cast

William Boyd as Pete Smith
Alan Hale as Mather
Jacqueline Logan as Mary Monks
Robert Armstrong as Scarface Marcas
Tom Kennedy as Sergeant Coughlin
Louis Natheaux as Louie
Philip Sleeman as Lord Courtney (credited as Phil Sleeman)
Dan Wolheim

Music

The sound version of the film included a theme song entitled “Always The Same, Sweet Pal” which was composed by Charles Weinberg and Billy Stone.

References

^ "The 2nd Academy Awards (1930) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved March 24, 2012.
^ "The Cop". American Silent Feature Film Survival Database. Retrieved January 9, 2014.
^ Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress, (<-book title) p.35 c.1978 by The American Film Institute
^ Progressive Silent Film List: The Cop at silentera.com