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Speakeasy
Also known as Rivincita in Italy
(1929) United States of America
B&W : 62 minutes
Directed by Benjamin Stoloff

Cast: Paul Page [Paul Martin], Lola Lane [Alice Woods], Henry B. Walthall [the piano player], Helen Ware [Min], Sharon Lynn [Mazie], Warren Hymer [Cannon Delmont], Stuart Erwin [Cy Williams], James Guilfoyle [Davey], Erville Alderson [the city editor], Joseph Cawthorn [the yokel], Ivan Linow [the wrestler], Marjorie Beebe [a speakeasy patron], ‘Sailor’ Vincent [a speakeasy patron], Helen Lynch [a speakeasy patron], Marion Morrison (John Wayne) [extra]

Fox Film Corporation production; distributed by Fox Film Corporation. / Screenplay by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan and Edwin Burke (Edwin J. Burke), with dialogue by Edwin Burke (Edwin J. Burke), from a play by Edward Knoblock and George Rosener. Costume design by Sophie Wachner. Wardrobe by Sam Benson. Assistant director, R.L. Hough. Cinematography by Joseph A. Valentine. Sound engineer, W.W. Lindsay (W.W. Lindsay Jr.). Edited by J. Edwin Robbins. Presented by William Fox. / © 1929 by Fox Film Corporation. Released 8 March 1929. / [?] Movietone 35mm spherical 1.20:1 format and Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format? Western Electric Movietone sound-on-film synchronized sound system. / The film does not appear to have been released in a silent version. / Full-sound film.

Drama.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost : Seven 16-inch Vitaphone-style soundtrack discs (dated 19 April 1929) were recovered in 2010.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 21 May 2012.

References: Website-IMDb.

 
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