Jaws of Steel

Jaws of Steel is a 1927 American synchronized sound family adventure film directed by Ray Enright and featuring dog star Rin Tin Tin and Jason Robards Sr. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using the Vitaphone sound-on-disc process. Warner Bros. produced and distributed the film. Darryl F. Zanuck, under the alias Gregory Rogers, wrote the story.^[2][3] The film is in the public domain in the United States.^[1]

Jaws of Steel
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Directed by	Ray Enright
Written by	Darryl F. Zanuck Charles R. Condon
Starring	Rin Tin Tin Jason Robards Helen Ferguson
Cinematography	Barney McGill
Production company	Warner Bros.
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date	September 10, 1927 (1927-09-10)
Running time	6 reels
Country	United States
Languages	Sound (Synchronized) (English Intertitles)
Budget	$46,000[1]
Box office	$272,000[1]

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Cast

• Rin Tin Tin as Rinty
• Jason Robards Sr. as John Warren
• Helen Ferguson as Mary Warren
• Mary Louise Miller as Baby Warren
• Jack Curtis as Thoms Grant Taylor
• Bob Perry as The Sheriff
• Buck Connors as Alkali Joe

Box office

According to Warner Bros records the film earned $189,000 domestically and $83,000 foreign against a budget of $46,000.^[1]

See also

• List of early sound feature films (1926–1929)
• List of early Warner Bros. sound and talking features

Preservation status

A nitrate print of the film is archived by Filmmuseum Nederlands. The Library of Congress has a copy shown to the public in the 1990s but is incomplete, missing a reel.^[4][5]