''Finger Prints'' is a 1927 American
silent comedy
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crime film
Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and its detection. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine ...
directed by
Lloyd Bacon
Lloyd Francis Bacon (December 4, 1889 – November 15, 1955) was an American screen, stage and vaudeville actor and film director. As a director he made films in virtually all genres, including westerns, musicals, comedies, gangster films, an ...
and starring
Louise Fazenda
Louise Fazenda (June 17, 1895 – April 17, 1962) was an American film actress, appearing chiefly in silent comedy films.
Early life
Fazenda was born in her maternal grandparents' house in Lafayette, Indiana, the daughter of merchandise broke ...
,
John T. Murray
John T. Murray (28 August 1886 – 12 February 1957) was an Australian stage and film actor.Leider p. 316
Biography
Born in Melbourne in 1886, Murray was married to actress Vivien Oakland, who he had appeared with on the vaudeville stage. , and
Helene Costello
Helene Costello (June 21, 1906 – January 26, 1957) was an American stage and film actress, most notably of the silent era.
Early life and career
Born in New York City, Costello was the youngest daughter of the prominent stage and pioneering ...
.
Cast
Preservation
No prints of ''Finger Prints'' survive, making it a
lost film
A lost film is a feature or short film that no longer exists in any studio archive, private collection, public archive or the U.S. Library of Congress.
Conditions
During most of the 20th century, U.S. copyright law required at least one copy o ...
.
The Library of Congress/FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:''..Finger Prints''
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1927 films
1920s English-language films
American silent feature films
Films directed by Lloyd Bacon
Lost American films
Lost crime comedy films
Warner Bros. films
American black-and-white films
American crime comedy films
1920s crime comedy films
1927 comedy films
1927 lost films
1920s American films
Silent American comedy films
Silent crime comedy films
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