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Court Martial (1928 film)

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Court-Martial
Directed byGeorge B. Seitz
Written byElmer Blaney Harris (story)
Anthony Coldeway (scenario)
Mort Blumenstock (titles)
Produced byHarry Cohn
StarringJack Holt
Betty Compson
CinematographyJoseph Walker
Edited byArthur Roberts
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • August 12, 1928 (1928-08-12)
Running time
65 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Court Martial is a 1928 American silent film war drama film directed by George B. Seitz, starring Jack Holt, Betty Compson as Belle Starr, and Frank Austin as Abraham Lincoln, and released by Columbia Pictures.

A foreign release print of the film survives and is preserved in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. It was shown at the annual Cinecon Classic Film Festival in 2014.[1]

Publicity for the film stated that several sequences were shot in early Technicolor,[2] but these do not appear to have survived.

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Preservation status

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  • Prints held at National Archives of Canada, Cineteca del Friuli (Gemona), Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), and 16mm at Library of Congress.[3]

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