Excuse My Dust is a 1920

1920 in film

The year 1920 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* November 27 - The Mark of Zorro, starring Douglas Fairbanks opens.-Top grossing films :-Films released in 1920:U.S.A. unless stated*The $1,000,000 Reward...

 silent

Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards...

 film action comedy produced by Famous Players-Lasky

Famous Players-Lasky

Famous Players-Lasky Corporation was an American motion picture and distribution company created on July 19, 1916 from the merger of Adolph Zukor's Famous Players Film Company -- originally formed by Zukor as Famous Players in Famous Plays -- and Jesse L...

 and distributed by Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film production and distribution company, located at 5555 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood. Founded in 1912 and currently owned by media conglomerate Viacom, it is America's oldest existing film studio; it is also the last major film studio still...

. It is taken from a Saturday Evening Post short story The Bear Trap by Byron Morgan, who penned stories for the previous year's The Roaring Road

The Roaring Road

The Roaring Road is a 1919 silent film action romance produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It is taken from the short stories by Byron Morgan; Junkpile Sweepstakes, Undertaker's Handicap and Roaring Road. A successful film, so much so that it spawned a sequel,...

. Sam Wood

Sam Wood

Samuel Grosvenor "Sam" Wood was an American film director, and producer, who was best known for directing such Hollywood hits as A Night at the Opera, A Day at the Races, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, and The Pride of the Yankees...

 directed Wallace Reid

Wallace Reid

Wallace Reid was an actor in silent film referred to as "the screen's most perfect lover".-Early life:Born William Wallace Reid in St...

 in one of Reid's most popular auto-racing pictures. Reid's young son, Wallace Jr., makes his first screen appearance here. This film is preserved in the Library of Congress

Library of Congress

The Library of Congress is the research library of the United States Congress, de facto national library of the United States, and the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States. Located in three buildings in Washington, D.C., it is the largest library in the world by shelf space and...

.

Cast

• Wallace Reid
  Wallace Reid
  Wallace Reid was an actor in silent film referred to as "the screen's most perfect lover".-Early life:Born William Wallace Reid in St...
  
   - 'Toodles' Walton
• Wallace Reid, Jr. - 'Toodles' Jr. (*William Wallace Reid, Jr.)
• Ann Little
  Ann Little
  Ann Little was an American film actress whose career was most prolific during the silent film era of the early 1910s through the early 1920s.-Life and career:...
  
   - Dorothy Ward Walden
• Theodore Roberts
  Theodore Roberts
  Theodore Roberts the actor is not to be confused with author Theodore Goodridge Roberts, 1877–1953, who wrote "The Harbor Master". Please see discussion page....
  
   - J.D. Ward
• Guy Oliver
  Guy Oliver
  George Guy Oliver was an American actor. He appeared in at least 189 silent era motion pictures and 27 talkies in character roles between 1911 and 1931. His obituary gives him credit for at least 600. He directed three movies in 1915.Born in Chicago, Illinois, Oliver began his career as a...
  
   - Darby
• Otto Brower
  Otto Brower
  Otto Brower was an American film director. He directed 45 films between 1928 and 1946.He was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and died in Hollywood, California, from a heart attack.-Selected filmography:...
  
   - Max Henderson
• Tully Marshall
  Tully Marshall
  William Phillips was an American character actor known as Tully Marshall, with nearly a quarter century of theatrical experience behind before he made his first film appearance in 1914.-Career:...
  
   - President Mutchler
• Walter Long
  Walter Long (actor)
  Walter Huntley Long was an American character actor in films from the 1910s. He was born in Nashua, New Hampshire.-Career:He appeared in many D. W...
  
   - Ritz

unbilled

• James Gordon - Griggs
• Jack Herbert - Oldham
• Fred Huntley
  Fred Huntley
  Fred Huntley was an American silent film actor and director.Fred Huntley made his theater debut at London's Covent Garden in 1879...
  
  - Police Magistrate
• Byron Morgan - unknown
• Will M. Ritchey - unknown

External Links

• Excuse My Dust at IMDb.com
• Excuse My Dust; allrovi.com