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The Mad Genius
Directed by
Michael Curtiz
Written by
Harvey Thew J. Grubb Alexander
Based on
The Idol 1929 play by Martin Brown
Starring
John Barrymore Marian Marsh Donald Cook Charles Butterworth
Cinematography
Barney McGill
Edited by
Ralph Dawson
Music by
David Mendoza conducting the Vitaphone Orchestra
Distributed by
Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.
Release date
November 7, 1931 (1931-11-07)
Running time
89 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$441,000[1]
Box office
$400,000[2]
The Mad Genius (1931) is an American pre-Code drama film[3] produced and distributed by Warner Bros. and directed by Michael Curtiz. The film stars John Barrymore, Marian Marsh, Donald Cook, Charles Butterworth, and in small roles, Boris Karloff and Frankie Darro. The film is based on the play The Idol (1929) by Martin Brown, which opened in Great Neck, Long Island but never opened on Broadway.[4]
^Warner Bros financial information in The William Shaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1-31 p 13 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551
^John Sedgwick, Mike Pokorny, "Hollywood’s foreign earnings during the 1930s", 83 TRAC 1 (1) pp. 83–97 Intellect Limited 2010 p92
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