''Protection'' is a 1929 American pre-Code

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directed by Benjamin Stoloff and written by

Frederick Hazlitt Brennan Frederick Hazlitt Brennan (September 23, 1901 – June 30, 1962) was an American screenwriter of more than thirty films between 1929 and 1953 and the director of the ABC/Desilu western television series, ''The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp' ...

. The film stars

Dorothy Burgess Dorothy Burgess (March 4, 1907 – August 20, 1961) was an American stage and motion-picture actress. Family, education Born in Los Angeles in 1907, Burgess was a niece of Fay Bainter. On her father's side, she was related to David C. Montgome ...

, Robert Elliott,

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, and Joe Brown. The film was released on May 5, 1929, by Fox Film Corporation.

Cast

as Myrtle Hines * Robert Elliott as Wallace Crockett *

as Chick Slater *Ben Hewlett as James Rollans *Dorothy Ward as Judy Revis * Joe Brown as Joe Brown * Roy Stewart as Ollie Bogardt *

William H. Tooker William H. Tooker (September 2, 1869 – October 10, 1936) was an American stage and film actor. Tooker acted with the Tivoli Comic Opera Company in San Francisco. On Broadway, he performed in ''The Coronet of the Duchess'' (1904) and ''The Gove ...

as Harry Lamson

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* 1929 films 1920s English-language films 1929 drama films Fox Film films Films directed by Benjamin Stoloff American black-and-white films 1920s American films {{1920s-US-film-stub

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