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The days of the silent film are numbered. A mad scramble to provide synchronized sound is on.. February 1 – The Broadway Melody is released by MGM and becomes the first major musical film of the sound era, sparking a host of imitators as well as a series of Broadway Melody films that will run until 1940.
The Canary Murder Case is a 1929 American pre-Code crime-mystery film based on the 1927 novel of the same name by S.S. Van Dine (the pseudonym for Willard Huntington Wright). ). The film was directed by Malcolm St. Clair, with a screenplay by Wright (under the Van Dine pseudonym), Albert Shelby LeVino, and Florence Ryer
The Black Watch ad in The Film Daily, 1929 . The Black Watch is a 1929 American Pre-Code adventure epic film directed by John Ford and starring Victor McLaglen, Myrna Loy, and David Torrence. It was written by James Kevin McGuinness and based on the 1916 novel King of the Khyber Rifles by Talbot Mundy.
The full film. The Cocoanuts is a 1929 pre-Code musical comedy film starring the Marx Brothers (Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and Zeppo).Produced for Paramount Pictures by Walter Wanger, who is not credited, the film also stars Mary Eaton, Oscar Shaw, Margaret Dumont and Kay Francis.
The Hollywood Revue of 1929: Charles Reisner: Conrad Nagel, Jack Benny: Musical: MGM [142] Honky Tonk: Lloyd Bacon: Sophie Tucker, Lila Lee: Musical: Warner Bros. [143] Hot for Paris: Raoul Walsh: Victor McLaglen, Fifi D'Orsay: Musical comedy: Fox Film [144] [145] Hot Stuff: Mervyn LeRoy: Alice White, Louise Fazenda: Comedy: First National [146 ...
Blackmail is a 1929 British thriller [3] directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Anny Ondra, John Longden, and Cyril Ritchard.Based on the 1928 play of the same name by Charles Bennett, [1] [4] the film is about a London woman who is blackmailed after killing a man who tries to rape her.
Behind That Curtain is a 1929 American Pre-Code mystery film directed by Irving Cummings and starring Warner Baxter, Lois Moran and Gilbert Emery. [1] It was the first Charlie Chan film to be made at Fox Studios. It was based on the 1928 novel of the same name. Charlie Chan, who is played by the Chinese American E. L. Park, gets one mention ...
The Love Parade is a 1929 American pre-Code musical comedy film, directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald, involving the marital difficulties of Queen Louise of Sylvania (MacDonald) and her consort, Count Alfred Renard (Chevalier). Despite his love for Louise and his promise to be an obedient husband ...