Ham and Eggs at the Front (1927)

Directed by

Roy Del Ruth

Genre

silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h

Rated

NR

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Three American soldiers in blackface go behind enemy lines during World War I. They pose as German officers and bumble through comic situations with the help of a synchronized music and sound effects track.

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What happens

Ham and Eggs at the Front is a 1927 American synchronized sound comedy film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Tom Wilson, Heinie Conklin and Myrna Loy—all in blackface. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using the Vitaphone sound-on-disc process. Long thought to be a lost film, a print was screened at the Pordenone Silent Film Festival in 2021 courtesy of the Cineteca Italiana. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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