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The Last Edition

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Director
  
Emory Johnson

Country
  
United States

6.8/10
IMDb

Duration
  

The Last Edition movie poster
Language
  
Silent English intertitles

Release date
  
November 8, 1925 (1925-11-08) (U.S.)

Writer
  
Emilie Johnson (screenplay), Emilie Johnson (story)

The Last Edition (1925) is a silent film melodrama film directed by Emory Johson and set in San Francisco. The leading role is played by Ralph Lewis who plays a pressman at the San Francisco Chronicle. The film was shot around the Chronicle Building at Geary, Kearny, and Market in downtown San Francisco. Soon after, the Chronicle moved to its present building at Mission and Fifth Streets in San Francisco.

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Restoration

Until 2011, no known copy of the movie was known to exist. In that year, Bay Area film preservationist Rob Byrne discovered the last surviving copy, in the archives of the EYE Film Institute in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. In collaboration with EYE and the San Francisco Silent Film Festival the highly flammable nitrate film was restored.

The restoration led to two new 35mm exhibition prints, one available at EYE, the other at the US Library of Congress. Research on the movie led to the discovery of the original trailer at the Library of Congress. This was restored in the process as well.

The copy in the collection of EYE was meant specifically for the Dutch market and therefore the intertitles were in Dutch. They were translated back into English by two volunteers.

Cast

  • Ralph Lewis - Tom McDonald
  • Lila Leslie - Mary McDonald
  • Ray Hallor - Ray McDonald
  • Frances Teague - Polly McDonald
  • Rex Lease - Clarence Walker
  • Lou Payne - George Hamilton
  • David Kirby - "Red Moran"
  • Wade Boteler - Mike Fitzgerald
  • Cuyler Supplee - Gerald Fuller
  • Lee Willard - Aaron Hoffman
  • Will Frank - Sam Blotz
  • Ada Mae Vaughn - Stenographer
  • Billy Bakewell - “Ink” Donovan
  • (cast list as per American Film Institute database

    References

    The Last Edition Wikipedia
    The Last Edition IMDb The Last Edition themoviedb.org