Mad Hour

Mad Hour is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Joseph Boyle and starring Sally O'Neil, Alice White, and Donald Reed.^[1] It was adapted from a 1914 novel by Elinor Glyn.^[2][3]

Mad Hour
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Directed by	Joseph Boyle
Written by	Thomas J. Geraghty Casey Robinson
Based on	The Man and the Moment by Elinor Glyn
Produced by	Robert Kane
Starring	Sally O'Neil Alice White Donald Reed
Edited by	Terry O. Morse
Production company	First National Pictures
Distributed by	First National Pictures
Release date	March 4, 1928 (1928-03-04)
Running time	70 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Cast

• Sally O'Neil as Cuddles
• Alice White as Aimee
• Donald Reed as Jack Hemingway Jr.
• Larry Kent as Elmer Grubb
• Lowell Sherman as Joe Mack
• Norman Trevor as Hemingway Sr.
• Eddie Clayton as Red
• Jim Farley as Inspector
• Rose Dione as Modiste
• Tully Marshall as Lawyer
• Margaret Livingston as Maid
• Jack Egan as Chauffeur
• Kate Price as Jail Matron
• Mary Foy as Police Matron
• Ione Holmes as Bride

Censorship

Like many American films of the time, Mad Hour was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. In Kansas the film, with a plot involving drinking, crime, and suicide, was banned by the Board of Review.^[4]

Preservation

With no prints of Mad Hour located in any film archives,^[5] it is a lost film.

See also

• The Man and the Moment (1918)
• The Man and the Moment (1929)