The Black Diamond Express Explained

The Black Diamond Express
Director:	Howard Bretherton
Story:	"Mark Canfield" (Darryl Zanuck)
Starring:	Monte Blue Edna Murphy
Cinematography:	David Abel Conrad Wells
Studio:	Warner Bros.
Distributor:	Warner Bros.
Runtime:	60 minutes (6 reels; ^[1])
Country:	United States
Language:	Silent (English titles) Vitaphone (music score and sound effects)

The Black Diamond Express is a 1927 silent railroad feature film drama directed by Howard Bretherton and starring Monte Blue. It was produced and distributed by Warner Bros.^[2] It is not to be confused with several early short actuality styled films under the title Black Diamond Express for example the famous and still exiting 1896^[3] film of a train arriving in a station.

This film is presumed lost.^{[4] [5]}

Cast

• Monte Blue as Dan Foster
• Edna Murphy as Jeanne Harmon
• Myrtle Stedman as Mrs. Harmon
• Claire McDowell as Martha, Dan's sister
• Carroll Nye as Fred, Dan's brother
• William Demarest as Fireman
• J. W. Johnston as Sheldon Truesdell

See also

• List of early Warner Bros. sound and talking features

External links

• • • lobby poster
  • 2nd lobby poster

Notes and References

1. News: The Film Daily (Jul-Dec 1927) . 14 June 2023 . New York, Wid's Films and Film Folks, Inc. . 3 July 1927.
2. https://web.archive.org/web/20170710181740/http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=2882 The AFI Catalog of Feature Films:The Black Diamond Express
3. http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/B/BlackDiamondExpress1896.html 1896 short The Black Diamond Express; silentera.com
4. http://www.silentsaregolden.com/arnewarner.html The Black Diamond Express at Lost Film Files:Warner Brothers lost films - 1927
5. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.3780/default.html The Library of Congress American Silent Film Survival Catalog:The Black Diamond Express