Give and Take
Film still
Directed by	William Beaudine
Written by	Harvey F. Thew Albert DeMond
Based on	Give and Take by Aaron Hoffman
Starring	Jean Hersholt George Sidney
Cinematography	Charles Van Enger
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date	December 23, 1928 (1928-12-23)
Running time	70 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Sound (Part-Talkie)

Give and Take is a 1928 American sound part-talkie comedy film directed by William Beaudine.^[1] It was Universal's second sound film.^[2]

Plot

A recent college graduate convinces his father to adapt social democracy in the father's manufacturing plant so that workers share in profits and have a role in managing operations.^[2]

Cast

• Jean Hersholt as Factory owner, John Bauer
• George Sidney as Plant Foreman
• George J. Lewis as 'Jack' Bauer Jr.
• Sharon Lynn as Foreman's Daughter
• Sam Hardy as Industrialist
• Rhoda Cross as Nancy
• Charles Hill Mailes as Drumm (credited as Charles Mailes)
• Leo Bates as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
• Frances Dare as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
• Fred Farrell as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
• Billy Franey as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
• Henry Murdock as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
• William Orlamond as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
• Betty Welsh as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)

Music

The film featured a theme song entitled "Give And Take" which was composed by Dave Dreyer, Maceo Pinkard, and Josef Cherniavsky.

Preservation

With no prints of Give and Take located in any film archives,^[3] it is a lost film.^[4]