Kick In is a silent

Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards...

 film crime drama produced by Famous Players-Lasky

Famous Players-Lasky

Famous Players-Lasky Corporation was an American motion picture and distribution company created on July 19, 1916 from the merger of Adolph Zukor's Famous Players Film Company -- originally formed by Zukor as Famous Players in Famous Plays -- and Jesse L...

 and distributed by Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film production and distribution company, located at 5555 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood. Founded in 1912 and currently owned by media conglomerate Viacom, it is America's oldest existing film studio; it is also the last major film studio still...

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Production background

Kick In stars Bert Lytell

Bert Lytell

Bert Lytell , Born Bertram Lytell, he was a popular screen star of the silent film era who starred in romantic, melodrama and adventure films....

 and Betty Compson

Betty Compson

Betty Compson was an American actress. Born Eleanor Luicime Compson in Beaver, Utah, she had an extensive film career. Her father died when she was young, and she was forced to drop out of school and earn a living for herself and her mother...

, and was directed by George Fitzmaurice

George Fitzmaurice

George Fitzmaurice was a film director and producer. Fitzmaurice's career first started as a set designer on stage...

, who previously directed a 1917 film version of the story. Both films are based on Willard Mack

Willard Mack

Willard Mack was a Canadian-born actor, director, and playwright.Born Charles McLaughlin, in Morrisburg, Ontario, at an early age his family moved to Brooklyn, New York. After two years, they relocated to Cedar Rapids, Iowa where McLaughlin finished high school...

's 1913 play that was produced on Broadway in 1914 starring John Barrymore

John Barrymore

John Sidney Blyth , better known as John Barrymore, was an acclaimed American actor. He first gained fame as a handsome stage actor in light comedy, then high drama and culminating in groundbreaking portrayals in Shakespearean plays Hamlet and Richard III...

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A later 1931 sound film version was produced with Clara Bow

Clara Bow

Clara Gordon Bow was an American actress who rose to stardom in the silent film era of the 1920s. It was her appearance as a spunky shopgirl in the film It that brought her global fame and the nickname "The It Girl." Bow came to personify the roaring twenties and is described as its leading sex...

 playing Molly.

Preservation status

After considered a lost film

Lost film

A lost film is a feature film or short film that is no longer known to exist in studio archives, private collections or public archives such as the Library of Congress, where at least one copy of all American films are deposited and catalogued for copyright reasons...

 for decades, a print of this film was discovered at the Gosfilmofond Archive in Moscow.

Cast

• Bert Lytell
  Bert Lytell
  Bert Lytell , Born Bertram Lytell, he was a popular screen star of the silent film era who starred in romantic, melodrama and adventure films....
  
   - Chick Hewes
• Betty Compson
  Betty Compson
  Betty Compson was an American actress. Born Eleanor Luicime Compson in Beaver, Utah, she had an extensive film career. Her father died when she was young, and she was forced to drop out of school and earn a living for herself and her mother...
  
   - Molly Brandon
• May McAvoy
  May McAvoy
  May McAvoy was an American actress, who worked mainly during the silent film era. She starred in Hollywood's revolutionary part talking film, The Jazz Singer.-Career:...
  
   - Myrtle
• Gareth Hughes
  Gareth Hughes
  Gareth Hughes was a Welsh stage and silent screen actor. Usually cast as a callow, sensitive hero in Hollywood silent films, Hughes got his start on stage during childhood and continued to play youthful leads on Broadway....
  
   - Benny
• Robert Agnew
  Robert Agnew
  Robert Agnew , also known as Bobby Agnew, born in Dayton, Kentucky, was an American movie actor who worked mostly in the silent film era, making 65 films in both the silent and sound eras....
  
   - Jerry Brandon
• John Miltern - District Attorney Brandon
• Charles A. Stevenson - Hansom(the Yegg)
• Jed Prouty - Jimmy Monahan
• Charles Ogle
  Charles Ogle
  Charles Ogle may refer to:*Charles Ogle , US Congressman*Charles Ogle , British Admiral*Charles Stanton Ogle , American silent film actor*Charles Chaloner Ogle , British journalist...
  
   - John Stephens
• Kathleen Clifford
  Kathleen Clifford
  Kathleen Clifford was an American vaudeville and Broadway stage and film actress of the early twentieth century.-Biography:...
  
   - Frou Frou
• Mayme Kelso
  Mayme Kelso
  Mayme Kelso , was an American actress of the silent era. She appeared in 79 films between 1911 and 1927.She was born in Columbus, Ohio, and died in South Pasadena, California from a heart attack.-Selected filmography:...
  
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• Walter Long
  Walter Long
  Walter Long may refer to:*Walter Long , English knight of South Wraxall and Draycot, Wiltshire, friend of Sir Walter Raleigh*Walter Long , his son, English knight of Wiltshire*Sir Walter Long, 1st Baronet Walter Long may refer to:*Walter Long (1565–1610), English knight of South Wraxall and...
  
  - Whip Fogarty
• Carlton S. King - Diggs Murphy

External Links

• Kick In at IMDb.com
• Kick In; allmovie.com
• poster & lobby card to the film lobby card, poster
• vertical oriented poster