Mad Hour Explained

Mad Hour
Producer:	Robert Kane
Editing:	Terry O. Morse
Studio:	First National Pictures
Distributor:	First National Pictures
Runtime:	70 minutes
Country:	United States
Language:	Silent (English intertitles)

Mad Hour is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Joseph Boyle and starring Sally O'Neil, Alice White, and Donald Reed.^[1] It was adapted from a 1914 novel by Elinor Glyn.^{[2] [3]}

Cast

• Sally O'Neil as Cuddles
• Alice White as Aimee
• Donald Reed as Jack Hemingway Jr.
• Larry Kent as Elmer Grubb
• Lowell Sherman as Joe Mack
• Norman Trevor as Hemingway Sr.
• Eddie Clayton as Red
• Jim Farley as Inspector
• Rose Dione as Modiste
• Tully Marshall as Lawyer
• Margaret Livingston as Maid
• Jack Egan as Chauffeur
• Kate Price as Jail Matron
• Mary Foy as Police Matron
• Ione Holmes as Bride

Censorship

Like many American films of the time, Mad Hour was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. In Kansas the film, with a plot involving drinking, crime, and suicide, was banned by the Board of Review.^[4]

Preservation

With no prints of Mad Hour located in any film archives,^[5] it is a lost film.

See also

• The Man and the Moment (1918)
• The Man and the Moment (1929)

Bibliography

• Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

External links

• • Lobby card at gettyimages.com

Notes and References

1. Goble p.849
2. https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/10498 The AFI Catalog of Feature Films 1893-1993: Mad Hour
3. https://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/M/MadHour1828.html Progressive Silent Film List: Mad Hour
4. Book: Butters, Gerald R. . Banned in Kansas: Motion Picture Censorship, 1915-1966 . University of Missouri Press . 2007 . 194 . 978-0-8262-1749-3.
5. http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.7194/default.html The Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Mad Hour