Watch The Barker (1928) Free Online

Release Date: 1928

Cast: Milton Sills, Betty Compson, Dorothy Mackaill, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

Categories: Movies, Silent film, Romance Film, Black-and-white, Indie

The Barker is a 1928 romantic drama film which tells the story of a woman who comes between a man and his estranged son. It stars Milton Sills, Dorothy Mackaill, Betty Compson, and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and released by First National Pictures in December 1928. (First National had been acquired by Warner Brothers in September 1928.) The movie was adapted by Benjamin Glazer, Joseph Jackson and Herman J. Mankiewicz from the play by Kenyon Nicholson. It was directed by George Fitzmaurice. The Barker is a silent film with some spoken dialogue. uncredited The Barker was remade as Hoop-La (1933)... MORE

The Barker is a 1928 romantic drama film which tells the story of a woman who comes between a man and his estranged son. It stars Milton Sills, Dorothy Mackaill, Betty Compson, and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and released by First National Pictures in December 1928. (First National had been acquired by Warner Brothers in September 1928.) The movie was adapted by Benjamin Glazer, Joseph Jackson and Herman J. Mankiewicz from the play by Kenyon Nicholson. It was directed by George Fitzmaurice. The Barker is a silent film with some spoken dialogue. uncredited The Barker was remade as Hoop-La (1933) with Clara Bow and as Diamond Horseshoe (1945) with Betty Grable. Japanese director Yasujirō Ozu remade this film in A Story of Floating Weeds (1934) and again in Floating Weeds (1959). LESS