Burning Daylight (1920 film)

Burning Daylight
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Directed by	Edward Sloman
Written by	Albert Shelby Le Vino
Based on	Burning Daylight by Jack London
Produced by	C. E. Shurtleff Inc.
Starring	Mitchell Lewis Helen Ferguson William V. Mong
Cinematography	Jackson Rose
Distributed by	Metro Pictures
Release date	May 20, 1920 (1920-05-20)
Running time	6 reels
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Burning Daylight is a 1920 American silent drama film directed by Edward Sloman with Mitchell Lewis, Helen Ferguson, and William V. Mong starring. It was distributed by Metro Pictures.^[1][2] It is based on the 1910 Jack London novel of the same name.

A subsequent version, Burning Daylight was filmed in 1928 by First National Pictures. It starred Milton Sills and Doris Kenyon.

Plot

Cast

• Mitchell Lewis as Burning Daylight
• Helen Ferguson as Dora
• William V. Mong as Necessity
• Alfred Allen as Nathaniel Letton
• Edward Jobson as Dowsett
• Robert Bolder as Guggenhammer
• Gertrude Astor as Lucille
• Arthur Edmund Carew as Arthur Howison
• Newton Hall as Jack
• Aaron Edwards as Crandall

Production

The film was partially shot on location at Truckee, California.^[3]

Preservation status

A print of Burning Daylight survives in a foreign archive.^[4]

References

1. "The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Burning Daylight". Afi.com. May 20, 1920. Retrieved January 10, 2018.
2. "Progressive Silent Film List: Burning Daylight at". silentera.com. Retrieved January 10, 2018.
3. Motion Picture News. New York: Motion Picture News Inc. April 10, 1920. p. 3324.
4. "The Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Burning Daylight". September 28, 2021. Archived from the original on September 28, 2021. Retrieved March 1, 2025.

External links

• Burning Daylight at IMDb