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The Wild Goose Chase
(1915) United States of America
B&W : [?] Four or Five? reels
Directed by Cecil B. DeMille

Cast: Ina Claire [Betty Wright], Tom Forman [Bob Randall], Theodore Roberts [Horatio Brutus Bangs], Lucien Littlefield [‘The Grind’], Helen Marlborough [Mrs. Wright], Raymond Hatton [Mr. Wright], Ernest Joy [Mr. Randall], Florence Smyth [Mrs. Randall], [?] Tex Driscoll?, [?] Mrs. Lewis McCord?, [?] Jane Wolfe?

Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company, Incorporated, production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation. / Produced by [?] Cecil B. DeMille? Scenario by William C. de Mille. Art direction by Wilfred Buckland. Cinematography by Alvin Wyckoff. Film editor, Cecil B. DeMille. Presented by Jesse L. Lasky. / © 19 May 1915 by Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company, Incorporated [LU5321]. Released 27 May 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Claire’s film debut.

Comedy: Rural.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.4986.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 27 June 2023.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.4986 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.