The Missing Link

The Missing Link is a 1927 American silent comedy film directed by Charles Reisner and starring Syd Chaplin, Ruth Hiatt and Tom McGuire. The title is a reference to the so-called "missing link" that connects man and the ape. Reception The film was a major production by Warner Brothers, with a budget of $313,000. It earned $608,000, more than any other silent film released by the studio that season. The New York Times critic Mordaunt Hall praised the film, observing "there are sequences in this comic contraption that are almost ceirtain to appeal to anybody". Main cast Syd Chaplin as Arthur Wells Ruth Hiatt as Beatrice Braden Tom McGuire as Colonel Braden Crauford Kent as Lord Melville Dryden Nick Cogley as Captain Sam Baker as The Missing Link Otto Fries Kewpie Morgan as Baggage Master