Lights of New York (1928)

Directed by

Bryan Foy

Genre

drama film, crime film

Country

United States

Runtime

57 min

Rated

NR

Rating

5.6 of 10 from 17 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two friends get mixed up with a gang of bootleggers in New York. One of them is framed for a murder he didn't commit.

pioneeringhistoricsnappydatedtheatricalbriskslightly stifftalky

What happens

Lights of New York is a 1928 American crime drama film starring Helene Costello, Cullen Landis, Wheeler Oakman and Eugene Pallette, and directed by Bryan Foy. Filmed in the Vitaphone sound-on-disc sound system, it is the first all-talking full-length feature film. It was released by Warner Bros. Pictures, who had introduced the first feature-length film with synchronized sound, Don Juan, in 1926; and the first with spoken dialogue, The Jazz Singer, in 1927. The film cost $23,000 to produce (a "B" picture), and grossed over $1 million. The enthusiasm with which audiences greeted the talkies was so great that by the end of 1929, Hollywood was producing sound films exclusively. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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