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The Bootleggers

Film Information:
Production: Not Available;

Premiere: Not Available;
Released: April 1922;
Production/Distribution Companies: Al Gilbert Film Productions/Wid Gunning Inc.;
Producer: Al Gilbert;
Director: Roy Sheldon;
Photography: Anthony G. Trigili;
Original Story/Scenario: Thomas F. Fallon;
Running time: unknown(lost);
Not available on VHS or DVD;

Cast: Walter Miller as Jack Seville; Paul Panzer as José Fernand; Jules Cowles as The Hermit; Hazel Flint as Olive Wood; Norma Shearer as Helen Barnes; Jane Allyn as Alice Barnes; Lucia Backus Seger as Mrs. Murphy;

Reviews:

Mary Kelly in Moving Picture World, April 15, 1922: "Norma Shearer is a pleasing figure in the midst of this turmoil. She has beauty, charm and dramatic sincerity. Paul W. Panzer is a good type for the veteran bootlegger, but seems a little apt to overdo in his wicked swagger and fiendish brutality. Hazel Flint is excellent."

Photoplay, July, 1922: "If all the bootleggers were as dull and uninteresting as the picture of this name, Volstead would be right. And Pussyfoot Johnson would be out of a job. Much rum running, a sick sister, a working girl, a lover in the revenue service, and a psuedo Spanish villia. The old formula."