No Control (1927 film) explained

No Control
Director:	Scott Sidney
Producer:	John C. Flinn
Starring:	Harrison Ford Phyllis Haver Jack Duffy
Cinematography:	Georges Benoît
Studio:	Metropolitan Pictures Corporation of California
Distributor:	Producers Distributing Corporation
Runtime:	60 minutes
Country:	United States
Language:	Silent Sound (Synchronized) English Intertitles

No Control is a 1927 American silent comedy film directed by Scott Sidney and starring Harrison Ford, Phyllis Haver and Jack Duffy.^[1] Due to the public apathy towards silent films, a sound version was also prepared in 1928. While the sound version has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process.

Cast

• Harrison Ford as John Douglas Jr
• Phyllis Haver as Nancy Flood
• Jack Duffy as Noah Flood
• Tom Wilson as Asthma
• Toby Claude as Mrs. Douglas
• E.J. Ratcliffe as John Douglas
• Larry Steers as Kid Dugan
• Albert Schaefer as The Fat Kid

Music

The sound version features a theme song entitled “I’ve No Control of My Heart” by Marian Gillespie (words) and John Hagen (music).

Bibliography

• Connelly, Robert B. The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2. December Press, 1998.
• 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.547