One Round Hogan (1927)

Original title

One-Round Hogan

Directed by

Howard Bretherton

Genre

drama film, silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 10m

Rating

10.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A boxing drama from the silent era that uses synchronized music and sound effects. It follows a boxer navigating his life and career.

nostalgicquietcontainedslightly datedunderstatedfocused

What happens

One-Round Hogan is a lost 1927 American synchronized sound boxing-drama film produced and distributed by Warner Bros. and directed by Howard Bretherton. 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. The film starred Monte Blue and Leila Hyams. Blue also appears in the 1925 predecessor called Hogan's Alley, written by Darryl F. Zanuck. Turn of the 20th century boxing champ James J. Jeffries had a featured role in this movie. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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