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Rips and Rushes
(1917) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by Lawrence Semon (Larry Semon)

Cast: Hughie Mack [Vernon Rastle], James Aubrey (Jimmy Aubrey) [his lordship], Alice Mann [the girlie], John Costello [the girlie’s old man], Joe Simberg, Earl Montgomery, Pietro Aramondo, Murray Simberg, Edward Dunn (Eddie Dunn), [?] Larry Semon?

The Vitagraph Company of America production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Scenario by C. Graham Baker and Lawrence Semon (Larry Semon). / Released 5 February 1917. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was rereleased in the USA on 26 January 1920.

Comedy.

Survival status: Prints exist in the Library of Congress film archive; and in the New Zealand Film Archive film archive.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 5 August 2012.

References: Weaver-Twenty p. 318 : Website-IMDb : with additional information provided by Manish Patwari.