# Sporting Goods

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{{short description|1928 film}}
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{{Infobox film
| name           = Sporting Goods
| image          = Sporting Goods poster (1928 film).jpg
| alt            = 
| caption        = 
| director       = [Malcolm St. Clair](/source/Malcolm_St._Clair_(filmmaker))
| producer       = [Jesse L. Lasky](/source/Jesse_L._Lasky)<br>[Adolph Zukor](/source/Adolph_Zukor)
| screenplay     = [George Marion Jr.](/source/George_Marion_Jr.)<br>[Ray Harris](/source/Ray_Harris_(writer))<br>Thomas J. Crizer
| starring       = [Richard Dix](/source/Richard_Dix)<br>[Ford Sterling](/source/Ford_Sterling)<br>[Gertrude Olmstead](/source/Gertrude_Olmstead)<br>[Philip Strange](/source/Philip_Strange)<br>[Myrtle Stedman](/source/Myrtle_Stedman)<br>[Wade Boteler](/source/Wade_Boteler)<br>[Claude King](/source/Claude_King_(actor))
| music          = 
| cinematography = [Edward Cronjager](/source/Edward_Cronjager)
| editing        = [Otho Lovering](/source/Otho_Lovering)
| studio         = [Famous Players–Lasky Corporation](/source/Famous_Players%E2%80%93Lasky_Corporation)
| distributor    = [Paramount Pictures](/source/Paramount_Pictures)
| released       = {{Film date|1928|2|11}}
| runtime        = 60 minutes
| country        = United States
| language       = English
| budget         = 
| gross          = 
}}

'''''Sporting Goods''''' is a [lost](/source/lost_film)<ref>[http://www.silentsaregolden.com/arneparamountpictures.html ''Sporting Goods'' at Lost Film Files: ''Lost Paramount Pictures films - 1928'']</ref><ref>[http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.9481/default.html The Library of Congress/FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:''Sporting Goods'']</ref> 1928 American [comedy](/source/Comedy_film) [silent film](/source/silent_film) directed by [Malcolm St. Clair](/source/Malcolm_St._Clair_(filmmaker)), written by [George Marion Jr.](/source/George_Marion_Jr.), [Ray Harris](/source/Ray_Harris_(writer)) and Thomas J. Crizer, and starring [Richard Dix](/source/Richard_Dix), [Ford Sterling](/source/Ford_Sterling), [Gertrude Olmstead](/source/Gertrude_Olmstead), [Philip Strange](/source/Philip_Strange), [Myrtle Stedman](/source/Myrtle_Stedman), [Wade Boteler](/source/Wade_Boteler) and [Claude King](/source/Claude_King_(actor)). It was released on February 11, 1928, by [Paramount Pictures](/source/Paramount_Pictures).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9507EED9113FE73ABC4B52DFB4668383639EDE|title=Movie Review - Rose Marie - THE SCREEN; Non-Slicing Material. - NYTimes.com|work=nytimes.com|accessdate=February 11, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=12365|title=Sporting Goods|work=afi.com|accessdate=February 11, 2015}}</ref>

== Cast ==
*[Richard Dix](/source/Richard_Dix) as Richard Shelby
*[Ford Sterling](/source/Ford_Sterling) as Mr. Jordan
*[Gertrude Olmstead](/source/Gertrude_Olmstead) as Alice Elliott
*[Philip Strange](/source/Philip_Strange) as Henry Thorpe
*[Myrtle Stedman](/source/Myrtle_Stedman) as Mrs. Elliott
*[Wade Boteler](/source/Wade_Boteler) as Regan
*[Claude King](/source/Claude_King_(actor)) as Timothy Stanfield
*[Maude Turner Gordon](/source/Maude_Turner_Gordon) as Mrs. Stanfield

==Reception==
''[Time](/source/Time_(magazine))'' magazine called the movie a "fossilated farce" which was "more interested in scenery than story":

{{Blockquote|Richard Dix, as a brawny, broken-nosed, commercial traveler, twines love and business, achieving girl and commission. It gags and gurgles about the young salesman and his sweetie who admires him for being both opulent and deceitful. Ethics are somewhat mixed, the principals in an excellent poker sequence shifting cards until Dix acquires four of a kind, raking in thereby $4,000.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,846741,00.html |title=Cinema: The New Pictures Feb. 27, 1928 |work=[Time](/source/Time_(magazine)) |date=February 27, 1928 |access-date=January 19, 2025 |archive-date=November 21, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101121031607/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,846741,00.html |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref>}}

== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{IMDb title|0019417|Sporting Goods}}

{{Malcolm St. Clair}}

Category:1928 films
Category:1928 English-language films
Category:1928 comedy films
Category:Paramount Pictures films
Category:Films directed by Malcolm St. Clair
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:American silent feature films
Category:1928 lost films
Category:English-language comedy films
Category:1928 American films
Category:Lost American silent comedy films

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