Atta Boy Explained

Atta Boy
Producer:	Monty Banks
Starring:	Monty Banks Virginia Bradford Ernest Wood
Cinematography:	William Rees Ted Tetzlaff Blake Wagner
Studio:	Monty Banks Productions
Distributor:	Pathe Exchange
Runtime:	63 minutes
Country:	United States
Language:	Silent (English intertitles)

Atta Boy is a 1926 American silent comedy film directed by Edward H. Griffith and starring Monty Banks, Virginia Bradford, and Ernest Wood.^{[1] [2]}

Cast

• Monty Banks as Monty Milde
• Virginia Bradford as The Girl
• Ernest Wood as Craven, Reporter
• Fred Kelsey as Detective
• Virginia Pearson as Madame Carlton
• Henry A. Barrows as Mr. Harrie
• Earl Metcalfe as Mr. Harrie's Brother
• Mary Carr as Grandmother
• America Chedister as Fashionable Woman
• Jimmy Phillips as Mr. Harrie's Kidnapped Son

Preservation

Prints of Atta Boy are located in the collections of the UCLA Film and Television Archive, BFI National Archive, and Filmoteca Española.^[3]

Bibliography

• Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.

Notes and References

1. Munden p. 29
2. https://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/A/AttaBoy1926.html Progressive Silent Film List: Atta Boy
3. https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.1056/ Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Atta Boy