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Is Zat So? (1927)

Is Zat So? poster
Directed by
Alfred Edward Green
Genre
comedy film, silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 10m
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A silent comedy from 1927 about two men who get involved in a scheme that leads to comic misunderstandings. The film is based on a popular stage play and follows their antics.

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What happens

Is Zat So? is a lost 1927 American silent comedy film directed by Alfred E. Green and starring George O'Brien, Edmund Lowe, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. It was produced and distributed by the Fox Film Corporation. The film was based on a 1925 play of the same name by James Gleason and Richard Taber and produced by George Brinton McLellan, which ran for 634 performances at the 39th Street Theatre in New York and opened in the same year at the Adelphi Theatre in Chicago. The play starred Gleason, Sidney Riggs and a pre-talkies Robert Armstrong. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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