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New Year’s Eve
(1929) United States of America
B&W : Feature film
Directed by Henry Lehrman
Cast: Mary Astor [Marjorie Ware], Charles Morton [Edward Warren], Earle Foxe [Barry Harmon], Florence Lake [Pearl], Arthur Stone [Steve], Helen Ware [the landlady], Freddie Frederick (Freddie Burke Frederick) [little brother], Jane La Verne [little girl], Sumner Getchell [Edward’s friend], Stuart Erwin [the landlady’s son], Virginia Vance [the little girl’s mother]
Fox Film Corporation production; distributed by Fox Film Corporation. / Scenario by [?] Dwight Cummins?, from the story “One Hundred Dollars” by Richard Connell. Assistant director, Max Gold. Cinematography by Conrad Wells. Intertitles written by William Kernell. Music by S.L. Rothafel. Presented by William Fox. / Released 24 February 1929. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / [?] Silent film, with synchronized music and sound effects?
Drama: Crime.
Reviews: [unidentified source] Another of those So-and-So pictures which makes you wonder just why it was written. A few points that were good but were mostly crowded with situations which you forget before you have left the theater. Too bad to waste the beauty of Mary Astor! She’s a poor little gal with a sick little brother. She hasn’t any money until she finds a good-looking guy’s wallet, plays George Washington; he gives her a hundred for returning to him. Another good-looking chap offers her a job in his gambling house — for a price. The first handsome lad, played ably by Charles Morton, arrives at the house of the second one, interpreted by Earle Foxe, just in time to run to the rescue. In the meantime an outside gangster comes in with a gun. Who did the murder? The girl proves, by another wallet, that is wasn’t the nice lad, so they celebrate Christmas on New Year’s Eve and bring the kiddie home a lot of belated presents and live happily ever after.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Crime: Murder - Death: Murder
Listing updated: 12 November 2022.
References: Kobal-Fifty p. 49 : ClasIm-302 p. 12 : Website-IMDb.
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