“THE TRAIL OF ’9B”
SCENES WITH 15,000 PEOPLE With fifteen thoustnd extra players and a cast of forty-five well-known screen names, “The Trail of ’9S” is the motion picture using the largest number of pepole since the beginning of the motion picture industry. This number of players exceeds the number used in “Ben Hur,” also a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture, by approximately two thousand. “The Trail of ’9B” was directed by Clarence Brown on the locales mentioned in Robert W. Service’s story of the Klondyke gold rush, and includes Ralph Forbes, Dolores Del Rio. Karl Dane. Harry Carey and George Cooper in the cast.
A recent addition to the cast of the Paramount picture, “The Canary Murder Case,* is Oscar Smith, the studio bootblack. E. H. Calvert will also play an important role. Louise Brooks, Mary Brian, James Hall and William Powell are featured.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 528, 4 December 1928, Page 15
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142“THE TRAIL OF ’98” Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 528, 4 December 1928, Page 15
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