The Cop (1928 film)

{{short description|1928 film}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = The Cop

| image = Cop lobby card.jpg

| caption = Lobby card

| director = Donald Crisp

| producer = Ralph Block

| writer = Elliott J. Clawson
Tay Garnett
John W. Krafft

| starring = William Boyd

| cinematography = Arthur C. Miller

| editing =

| studio = DeMille Pictures Corporation

| distributor = Pathé Exchange

| released = {{Film date|1928|8|20}}

| runtime = 77 minutes

| country = United States

| language = Silent (English intertitles)

}}

The Cop is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Donald Crisp. Due to the public apathy towards silent films, a sound version was also prepared. While the sound version has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process. At the 2nd Academy Awards in 1930, Elliott J. Clawson was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay).{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1930 |title=The 2nd Academy Awards (1930) Nominees and Winners |accessdate=March 24, 2012|work=oscars.org}} Prints of the film exist in several film archives including the Library of Congress.{{cite web |url=http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.184/default.html |title=The Cop |accessdate=January 9, 2014 |work=American Silent Feature Film Survival Database}}Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress, (<-book title) p.35 c.1978 by The American Film Institute[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/C/Cop1928.html Progressive Silent Film List: The Cop] at silentera.com