The Port of Missing Girls

1928 film

Not to be confused with the 1938 film The Port of Missing Girls.

The Port of Missing Girls

Film poster

Directed by| Irving Cummings
Written by| Howard Estabrook (story & scenario)
Viola Brothers Shore (intertitles)
Produced by| Brenda Pictures Corporation
Starring| Barbara Bedford
Hedda Hopper
Malcolm McGregor
Cinematography| Charles Van Enger
Edited by| George Nichols Jr.
Distributed by| Brenda Pictures Corporation and or Columbia Pictures

Release date

* March 1928 (1928-03)

Running time

| 8 reels; (7,250 feet)
Country| United States
Language| Silent (English intertitles)

The Port of Missing Girls is a 1928 silent film directed by Irving Cummings. It stars Barbara Bedford and Hedda Hopper, making it one of the rare occasions Hopper actually starred in a film. This film is preserved in the Library of Congress.[1][2][3]

## Plot

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## Cast

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* Barbara Bedford \- Ruth King
* Malcolm McGregor \- Buddie Larkins
* Natalie Kingston \- Catherine King
* Hedda Hopper \- Mrs. C. King
* George Irving \- Cyrus King
* Wyndham Standing \- Mayor McKibben
* Charles K. Gerrard \- DeLeon (billed as Charles Gerrard)
* Paul Nicholson - George Hamilton
* Edith Yorke \- Mrs. Blane
* Bodil Rosing \- Elsa
* Rosemary Theby \- School Matron
* Lotus Thompson \- Anne
* Amber Norman - Marjorie

## Reception

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In the July 31, 1928 issue of the New York Daily News, the newspaper's film critic Irene Thirer began grading movies on a scale of zero to three stars. Three stars meant 'excellent,' two 'good,' and one star meant 'mediocre.' And no stars at all 'means the picture's right bad,'" wrote Thirer. The Port of Missing Girls received one star; Carl Bialik speculates that this may have been the first time a film critic used a star-rating system to grade movies.[4]

## References

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1. ^ The American Film Institute Catalog 1921-30; published by The American Film Institute, c. 1971
2. ^ The Library of Congress/FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:..The Port of Missing Girls
3. ^ Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress, (<-book title) p.144 c.1978 the American Film Institute
4. ^ Bialik, Carl (January 23, 2009). "Let's Rate the Ranking Systems of Film Reviews: The Stars, Grades and Thumbs Applied to Movies Suffer From Lackluster Performance, Low Production Values". Wall Street Journal.

## External links

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* The Port of Missing Girls at IMDb
* allmovie/synopsis
* Lobby card for The Port of Missing Girls 1928

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* Environment (1922)
* The Drug Traffic (1923)
* East Side - West Side (1923)
* Broken Hearts of Broadway (1923)
* Stolen Secrets (1924)
* In Every Woman's Life (1924)
* Riders Up (1924)
* Fools Highway (1924)
* The Dancing Cheat (1924)
* The Rose of Paris (1924)
* As Man Desires (1925)
* One Year to Live (1925)
* Just a Woman (1925)
* The Desert Flower (1925)
* Infatuation (1925)
* The Johnstown Flood (1926)
* Rustling for Cupid (1926)
* The Midnight Kiss (1926)
* The Country Beyond (1926)
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* The Brute (1927)
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* Dressed to Kill (1928)
* In Old Arizona (1928)
* Behind That Curtain (1929)
* Not Quite Decent (1929)
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* On the Level (1930)
* A Devil with Women (1930)
* A Holy Terror (1931)
* The Cisco Kid (1931)
* Attorney for the Defense (1932)
* The Night Club Lady (1932)
* Man Against Woman (1932)
* Man Hunt (1933)
* The Woman I Stole (1933)
* The Mad Game (1933)
* I Believed in You (1934)
* Grand Canary (1934)
* The White Parade (1934)
* Curly Top (1935)
* It's a Small World (1935)
* Poor Little Rich Girl (1936)
* Girls' Dormitory (1936)
* White Hunter (1936)
* Vogues of 1938 (1937)
* Merry-Go-Round of 1938 (1937)
* Little Miss Broadway (1938)
* Just Around the Corner (1938)
* Everything Happens at Night (1939)
* Hollywood Cavalcade (1939)
* The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)
* Lillian Russell (1940)
* Down Argentine Way (1940)
* That Night in Rio (1941)
* Belle Starr (1941)
* Louisiana Purchase (1941)
* My Gal Sal (1942)
* Springtime in the Rockies (1942)
* Sweet Rosie O'Grady (1943)
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