Steel Preferred

Steel Preferred
Steel Preferred
	Lobby card
Directed by	James P. Hogan
Written by	Elliott J. Clawson
Based on	Steel Preferred; by Herschel S. Hall
Starring	Vera Reynolds; William Boyd; Hobart Bosworth;
Cinematography	Devereaux Jennings
Production; company	Metropolitan Pictures Corporation of California
Distributed by	Producers Distributing Corporation
Release date	December 21, 1925;
Running time	70 minutes
Country	United States
Languages	Silent; English intertitles;

Steel Preferred is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by James P. Hogan and starring Vera Reynolds, William Boyd, and Hobart Bosworth.^[1]^[2] The film portrays a power struggle at a steelworks.

Plot

As described in a film magazine review,^[3] Wally Gay, a young furnace man’s helper in a steel mill, is eager to become a mill owner, and to that end tries to submit to the mill owner for whom he works a new plan for installing a battery of furnaces. He is spurred on by his love for Amy Creeth, the mill owner’s daughter. His enemy in his plan for the mill is the nephew of the acting superintendent of the mill, who also seeks to win the affection of the young woman. Many complications arise out of the plans for the new furnaces, including a spill of molten metal near Amy and a strike by the mill workers, but the young tender’s helper finally has his plan for the mill adopted and also wins the love of the young woman.

Cast

Vera Reynolds as Amy Creeth
William Boyd as Wally Gay
Hobart Bosworth as James Creeth
Charles Murray as Dicker
Walter Long as Redface
William V. Mong as Nicker
Nigel Barrie as Waldron
Helene Sullivan as Mrs. Creeth
Ben Turpin as Bartender

Preservation

With no prints of Steel Preferred located in any film archives,^[4] it is a lost film.

References

^ Munden p. 764
^ Progressive Silent Film List: Steel Preferred at silentera.com
^ "New Pictures: Steel Preferred". Exhibitors Herald. 24 (4). Chicago: Exhibitors Herald Co.: 69 January 9, 1926. Retrieved January 30, 2023. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
^ The Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Steel Preferred

Bibliography

Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.