''Alex the Great'' is a

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1928 American silent

comedy film A comedy film is a category of film which emphasizes humor. These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement. Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending (black comedy being an exception). Comedy is one of the ol ...

directed by

Dudley Murphy Dudley Bowles Murphy (July 10, 1897 – February 22, 1968) was an American film director. Early life Murphy was born on July 10, 1897 in Winchester, Massachusetts, to the artists Caroline Hutchinson (Bowles) Murphy (1868-1923) and Hermann D ...

and starring

Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'strong ...

Albert Conti Albert De Conti Cadassamare (29 January 1887 – 18 January 1967), professionally billed as Albert Conti, was an Austrian-Hungarian-born Italian-American film actor. Life Born in the village of Gorizia (now, part of Italy), Conti achieved mode ...

and

Patricia Avery Patricia Avery (born Elizabeth Anderson Avery; November 12, 1902 – August 21, 1973) was an American silent film actress of the 1920s. Life Born Elizabeth Anderson Avery in Boston, Massachusetts, Avery moved to Hollywood to pursue a caree ...

.Munden p.12

Cast

as Alex the Great *

as Ed *

as Muriel * Ruth Dwyer as Alice *

Charles Byer Charles Byer (February 28, 1893 – November 28, 1953) was an American film actor of the silent era.Babington & Barr p. 133 He appeared in films for a variety of companies including Fox, Paramount, Tiffany, and First National Pictures. He played ...

as Brown *

J. Barney Sherry J. Barney Sherry (March 4, 1874February 22, 1944) was an American actor of the silent film era. He appeared in more than 210 films between 1905 and 1929. He was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania and died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from card ...

as Smith

References

Bibliography

* Munden, Kenneth White. ''The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1''. University of California Press, 1997.

External links

* 1928 films 1928 comedy films 1920s English-language films American silent feature films Silent American comedy films American black-and-white films Lost American comedy films Films directed by Dudley Murphy Film Booking Offices of America films 1928 lost films English-language comedy films 1920s American films {{1920s-silent-comedy-film-stub