It's the Old Army Game
| It's the Old Army Game | |
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| Directed by | A. Edward Sutherland |
| Produced by |
Adolph Zukor Jesse L. Lasky William LeBaron (associate producer) |
| Written by | Joseph P. McEvoy (story) William LeBaron (story) Thomas J. Geraghty (scenario) J. Clarkson Miller (scenario) |
| Starring |
W. C. Fields Louise Brooks |
| Cinematography | Alvin Wyckoff |
| Edited by | Thomas J. Geraghty |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Release date
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May 24, 1926 (premiere) July 11, 1926 (USA) |
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Running time
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7 reels |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
It's the Old Army Game is a 1926 American silent comedy film starring W. C. Fields and Louise Brooks. The "army game" is the shell game, a con-trick which WC Fields observes being played. "It's the old army game" he says, sagely. The film was directed by A. Edward Sutherland, billed as Eddie Sutherland, and co-stars Sutherland's aunt, the stage actress Blanche Ring in one of her few silent film appearances. The film is based on the revue The Comic Supplement by Joseph P. McEvoy and Fields, and included several skits from Fields' stage plays.
It's the Old Army Game was the fourth film that Louise Brooks appeared in. Sutherland and Brooks married in June 1926, and divorced in June 1928.
The film was shot mainly at Paramount's Astoria Studios facility in Astoria, Queens and in Manhattan, and is preserved complete in the Library of Congress. A few outdoor scenes were filmed in Ocala, Florida and Palm Beach, Florida.
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