Movie: The Hottentot

Top 9 Billed Cast

Edward Everett Horton
Edward Everett Horton

Sam Harrington

Patsy Ruth Miller
Patsy Ruth Miller

Peggy Fairfax

Douglas Gerrard
Douglas Gerrard

Swift

Edward Earle
Edward Earle

Larry Crawford

Stanley Taylor
Stanley Taylor

Alec Fairfax

Gladys Brockwell
Gladys Brockwell

Mrs. Chadwick

Maude Turner Gordon
Maude Turner Gordon

May Gilford

Otto Hoffman
Otto Hoffman

Perkins

Edmund Breese
Edmund Breese

Ollie

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    The Hottentot is a lost 1929 American pre-Code film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Edward Everett Horton and Patsy Ruth Miller. It is based on a 1920 Broadway play, The Hottentot, by William Collier, Sr. and Victor Mapes.

  • Release Date

    1929-08-10

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    7

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    They're off for the fastest, funniest, most furious comedy run in history! "The Hottentot" wins! High explosive hilarity! Dynamited with laughter!

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