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Court Martial is a 1928 American silent film war drama film directed by George B. Seitz, starring Jack Holt, Betty Compson as Belle Starr, and Frank Austin as Abraham Lincoln, and released by Columbia Pictures.

Court-Martial
Directed by	George B. Seitz
Written by	Elmer Blaney Harris (story) Anthony Coldeway (scenario) Mort Blumenstock (titles)
Produced by	Harry Cohn
Starring	Jack Holt Betty Compson
Cinematography	Joseph Walker
Edited by	Arthur Roberts
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date	August 12, 1928
Running time	65 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

A foreign release print of the film survives and is preserved in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. It was shown at the annual Cinecon Classic Film Festival in 2014.[1]

Publicity for the film stated that several sequences were shot in early Technicolor,[2] but these do not appear to have survived.

Cast

• Jack Holt as James Camden
• Betty Compson as Belle Starr
• Pat Harmon as Bull
• Doris Hill as General's Daughter
• Frank Lackteen as 'Devil' Dawson
• Frank Austin as President Abraham Lincoln
• George Cowl as General Robert Hackathorne
• Zack Williams as Negro

Preservation status

• Prints held at National Archives of Canada, Cineteca del Friuli (Gemona), Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), and 16mm at Library of Congress.[3]

References

External links

• Court Martial at IMDb
• Court-Martial synopsis at AllMovie

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