Court Martial (1928 film) explained

Court-Martial
Director:	George B. Seitz
Producer:	Harry Cohn
Starring:	Jack Holt Betty Compson
Cinematography:	Joseph Walker
Editing:	Arthur Roberts
Distributor:	Columbia Pictures
Runtime:	65 minutes
Country:	United States
Language:	Silent (English intertitles)

Court Martial is a 1928 American silent film war drama film directed by George B. Seitz, starring Jack Holt, Betty Compson as Belle Starr, and Frank Austin as Abraham Lincoln, and released by Columbia Pictures.

A foreign release print of the film survives and is preserved in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. It was shown at the annual Cinecon Classic Film Festival in 2014.^[1]

Publicity for the film stated that several sequences were shot in early Technicolor,^[2] but these do not appear to have survived.

Cast

• Jack Holt as James Camden
• Betty Compson as Belle Starr
• Pat Harmon as Bull
• Doris Hill as General's Daughter
• Frank Lackteen as 'Devil' Dawson
• Frank Austin as President Abraham Lincoln
• George Cowl as General Robert Hackathorne
• Zack Williams as Negro

Preservation status

• Prints held at National Archives of Canada, Cineteca del Friuli (Gemona), Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), and 16mm at Library of Congress.^[3]

See also

• List of early color feature films
• List of films and television shows about the American Civil War

Notes and References

1. https://web.archive.org/web/20141010230636/https://cinecon.org/cinecon_schedule.html Cinecon 50 Film Schedule
2. Exhibitors Herald and Moving Picture World, July 14, 1928, p14
3. https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.3012/default.html The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:Court-Martial