No Control (1927 film)

For the 2015 film about gun policy in the United States, see No Control (2015 film).

No Control
Directed by	Scott Sidney
Written by	Frank Condon (story) Tay Garnett Zelda Sears
Produced by	John C. Flinn
Starring	Harrison Ford Phyllis Haver Jack Duffy
Cinematography	Georges Benoît
Production company	Metropolitan Pictures Corporation of California
Distributed by	Producers Distributing Corporation
Release date	April 7, 1927 (1927-04-07)
Running time	60 minutes
Country	United States
Languages	Silent Sound (Synchronized) English Intertitles

No Control is a 1927 American silent comedy film directed by Scott Sidney and starring Harrison Ford, Phyllis Haver and Jack Duffy.^[1] Due to the public apathy towards silent films, a sound version was also prepared in 1928. While the sound version has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process.

Cast

• Harrison Ford as John Douglas Jr
• Phyllis Haver as Nancy Flood
• Jack Duffy as Noah Flood
• Tom Wilson as Asthma
• Toby Claude as Mrs. Douglas
• E.J. Ratcliffe as John Douglas
• Larry Steers as Kid Dugan
• Albert Schaefer as The Fat Kid

Music

The sound version features a theme song entitled “I’ve No Control of My Heart” by Marian Gillespie (words) and John Hagen (music).

References

1. Munden p.547

Bibliography

• Connelly, Robert B. The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2. December Press, 1998.
• Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.

External links

• No Control at IMDb