Is Zat So? is a lost 1927 American silent comedy film directed by Alfred E. Green and starring George O'Brien, Edmund Lowe, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. It was produced and distributed by the Fox Film Corporation.Progressive Silent Film List: Is Zat So? at silentera.com The AFI Catalog of Feature Films 1893-1993: Is Zat So?Daniel Blum (1953), Pictorial History of the Silent Screen, p. 305
The film was based on a 1925 play of the same name by James Gleason and Richard Taber and produced by George Brinton McLellan, which ran for 634 performances at the 39th Street Theatre in New York and opened in the same year at the Adelphi Theatre in Chicago.Is Zat So? - NitrateVille Vintage Film websiteGerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak, Is Zat So? (1925) - The Oxford Companion to American Theatre (3rd ed.), Oxford University Press (2004) e The play starred Gleason, Sidney Riggs and a pre-talkies Robert Armstrong.
Plot
Cast George O'Brien as Ed 'Chick' Cowan Edmund Lowe as Hap Hurley Katherine Perry as Marie Mestretti Cyril Chadwick as Robert Parker Doris Lloyd as Sue Parker Diane Ellis as Florence Hanley Richard Maitland as Major Fitz Stanley Douglas Fairbanks Jr. as G. Clifton Blackburn Philippe De Lacy as Little Jimmy Parker Jack Herrick as Gas House Duffy
Preservation With no prints of Is Zat So? located in any film archives,The Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Is Zat So? it is a lost film. (Wayback Machine)
See also 1937 Fox vault fire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_UrZ4gpn8M
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