High Steppers

{{short description|1926 film}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2020}} {{infobox film | name = High Steppers | image = High Steppers.jpg | caption = Advertisement | director = Edwin Carewe | producer = Edwin Carewe | writer = Finis Fox<br />Lois Leeson | based_on = {{based on|''Heirs Apparent''|Philip Gibbs}} | starring = Lloyd Hughes<br>Mary Astor<br>Dolores del Río | music = | cinematography = Robert Kurrle | editing = | distributor = First National Pictures | released = {{Film date|1926|03|14|ref1=<ref name="AFI"/>}} | runtime = 70 mins. | country = United States | language = Silent (English intertitles) | gross = }}

'''''High Steppers''''' is a 1926 American silent drama film produced and directed by Edwin Carewe and distributed by First National Pictures. The film is based on the novel ''Heirs Apparent'' by Philip Gibbs.<ref name="AFI">{{cite web |url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=9733 |title=High Steppers |website=AFI Catalog of Feature Films |publisher=American Film Institute |access-date=January 1, 2016}}</ref><ref>[https://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/H/HighSteppers1926.html Progressive Silent Film List: ''High Steppers''] at silentera.com</ref>

== Plot == Julian Perryam gets thrown out of Oxford University and returns to the family estate outside London. He discovers that his sister and his mother are caught up in the "jazz" life and their father, who's the editor of a tabloid scandal rag, is too busy to notice. He also discovers that his sister is in love with the scoundrel son of his father's publisher, Victor Buckland. Learning that Buckland is actually an embezzler, Julian gets a job as a reporter on a muckraking publication and sets out to expose Buckland.

== Cast == * Lloyd Hughes as Julian Perryam<ref name="AFI"/> * Mary Astor as Audrey Nye<ref name="AFI"/> * Dolores del Río as Evelyn Iffield<ref name="AFI"/> * Rita Carewe as Janette Perryam<ref name="AFI"/> * John T. Murray as Cyril Buckland<ref name="AFI"/> * Edwards Davis as Victor Buckland<ref name="AFI"/> * Alec B. Francis as Father Perryam * Clarissa Selwynne as Mrs. Perryam (credited as Clarissa Selwyn) * Charles Sellon as Grandpa Perryam * John Steppling as Major Iffield * Emily Fitzroy as Mrs. Iffield * Margaret McWade as Mrs. Clancy

==Preservation== With no prints of ''High Steppers'' located in any film archives, it is considered a lost film.<ref>[https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.6162/ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: ''High Steppers'']</ref>

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==External links== *{{IMDb title|0016967|High Steppers}} *[https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/1926-glass-film-preview-slide-high-428546792 lantern slide](archived)

{{DEFAULTSORT:High Steppers}} Category:1926 films Category:1926 American films Category:1926 drama films Category:1926 English-language films Category:1926 lost films Category:American black-and-white films Category:American silent feature films Category:English-language drama films Category:Films based on British novels Category:Films directed by Edwin Carewe Category:First National Pictures films Category:Lost American silent drama films