SOUND FEATURES: THE LASH (1930)

CREDITS

Released:  December 12, 1930

Production Company: First National Pictures

Featured Cast: Richard Barthelmess, Mary Astor, Fred Kohler, Marian Nixon, James Rennie, Robert Edeson, Erville Alderson, Barbara Bedford, Arthur Stone, Sam Appel, Mathilde Comont, Xavier Cugat, Frank Lackteen, Harry Lamont, Pedro León, Chris-Pin Martin, Francis McDonald, William L. Thorne

Director (uncredited): Frank Lloyd

Producer (uncredited): Frank Lloyd

Cinematographer: Ernest Haller

Editor: Harold Young

Art Director: John Hughes

Costume Designer (uncredited): Edward Stevenson

Composer (uncredited): Xavier Cugat, David Mendoza, Leon Rosebrook

Conductor – Vitaphone Orchestra: Xavier Cugat

General Musical Director: Erno Rapee

Composer: Stock Music (uncredited): Edward Ward

Sound Recording Engineer (uncredited): Oliver S. Garretson

Writers:Lanier Bartlett (based on the story: “Adios”), Virginia Stivers Bartlett (based on the story: “Adios”), Bradley King (adaptation and additional dialogue)

STORY

Don Francisco Delfina, a nobleman of Southern California in 1848, disguises himself as El Puma and leads a revolt against the tyrannical land agent and politician Peter Harkness.
Written By: Jim Beaver

TECH

Runtime 1 hr 17 min (77 min) (Turner library print)
Sound Mix Mono (Vitaphone)
Color Black and White
Aspect Ratio 2.20 : 1 (70 mm version)
1.37 : 1 (35 mm version)
2.13 : 1 (65 mm version)
Film Length 2,185.11 m (9 reels)
Negative Format 35 mm
65 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
(alternative 35 mm version)
Vitascope
Printed Film Format 70 mm
35 mm

Separately filmed in both the standard ratio version and the wide screen Vitascope version, only the standard version seems to have survived.

Here Frank Lloyd poses while caricaturist  Xavier Cugat (and band-leader for his daughter’s engagement party) sketches his face with other Hollywood  personalities; notice bushy eyebrows. Richard Barthelmess, in costume for current filming of “The Lash” (1930), looks on.