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Lonesome
(1928) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels / [?] 6142 or 6193? feet
Directed by Paul Fejos (Pál Fejös)
Cast: Glenn Tryon [John], Barbara Kent [Mary], Fay Holderness [the overdressed woman], Gustav Partos [the romantic gentleman], Eddie Phillips [the sport]
Universal Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Universal Pictures Corporation. / Scenario by Edward T. Lowe Jr., with dialogue by Tom Reed, from the adaptation by Edward T. Lowe Jr. of a screen story by Mann Page. Production supervised by Carl Laemmle Jr. Cinematography by Gilbert Warrenton. Film editor, Frank Atkinson. Intertitles written by Tom Reed. Presented by Carl Laemmle. / © 20 June 1928 by Universal Pictures Corporation [LP25404]. Released June 1928. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Originally shot and released as a silent production, after sound retakes, the film was also released in the USA in a Western Electric Movietone sound-on-film synchronized sound system version at [?] 6761 or 6785? feet by Universal Pictures Corporation in September 1928. General release (sound version), 20 January 1929. The film was entered in the National Film Registry in 2010. / Silent film, with talking sequences, synchronized music and sound effects.
Drama: Romance.
Synopsis: Synopsis available in Hirschhorn-Universal p. 59.
Survival status: Print exists in the George Eastman Museum film archive.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Boarding houses - Fires - Synchronized sound film - USA: New York: Coney Island
Listing updated: 17 May 2012.
References: Bardèche-History pp. 161, 298-299, 317; Everson-American p. 337; Fell-History p. 106; Hirschhorn-Universal p. 59; Sarris-Sternberg p. 19; Shipman-Cinema p. 98 : ClasIm-240 p. 10 : Website-AFI.
Home video: Blu-ray Disc, DVD.
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