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Weary River
Also known as El príncipe de la melodia in Argentina; Das Lied des Sträflings in Austria; Regeneração in Brazil; Le torrent fatal in France; O moiraios heimarros in Greece; Il fiume stanco in Italy
(1929) United States of America
B&W : Eight reels / 7978 feet / 86 minutes
Directed by Frank Lloyd
Cast: Richard Barthelmess [Jerry Larrabee], Betty Compson [Alice Gray], William Holden [the prison warden], Louis Natheaux [Spadoni], George Stone (George E. Stone) [Blackie], Raymond Turner (Ray Turner) [the elevator boy], Gladden James [Jerry’s manager]; Ernie Adams [the ex-con in the alley], Brooks Benedict [Jerry’s guest], Ruth Cherrington [the actress backstage who locks her door], James Conaty [the attorney at trial], Richard Cramer [the prison radio announcer], Edwards Davis [the prison chaplain], Sally Eilers [the hat check girl], Jim Farley [the plain-clothes man with the sergeant], Sherry Hall [the prison telephone operator], Chuck Hamilton [the prison photographer], Pat Harmon [the bartender], Ernest Hilliard [the literary club host], Bob Kortman [a prison guard], Louis Mercier [a friend at Barney’s], Robert Emmett O’Connor [the police sergeant], Virginia Sale [the noisy lady in audience], Randolph Scott [an audience member], Harry Semels [the telephone informer; a friend at Barney’s], Charles Sullivan [a friend at Barney’s], Blue Washington [the prisoner in the bathtub]
First National Pictures, Incorporated, production; distributed by First National Pictures, Incorporated [A Frank Lloyd Production; A First National Vitaphone Production]. / Produced by Frank Lloyd. Screen version (scenario) by Bradley King, with dialogue by Thomas J. Geraghty, from a screen story by Courtney Riley Cooper. Art direction by John J. Hughes. Set decoration by Ray Moyer. Costume director, Max Ree (Max Rée). Photography (cinematography) by Ernie Haller (Ernest Haller). Special photography (special cinematography) by Alvin Knechtel. Film editors, Edward Schroeder and James Gibbon. Titles (intertitles written) by Paul Perez. Music score by Louis Silvers. Presented by Richard A. Rowland. / © 14 March 1929 by First National Pictures, Incorporated [LP229]. Released 10 February 1929. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. Western Electric Vitaphone sound-on-disc synchronized sound system. / Vitaphone production reels 3031-3029. The film was also released in the USA in a silent version (in 7565 feet) by First National Pictures, Incorporated, on 7 April 1929. The film was released in Argentina as El príncipe de la melodia on 30 June 1929. The film was released in France as Le torrent fatal on 23 August 1929. The film was released in Slovenia on 19 July 1930. / Silent film, with talking sequences, synchronized music and sound effects.
Drama: Romance.
Survival status: Print exists.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Synchronized sound film
Listing updated: 9 May 2021.
References: Film credits, film viewing : Bohn-Light p. 186; Katchmer-Eighty p. 22; Vermilye-Twenties p. 235 : Website-IMDb.
Home video: DVD.
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