Lonesome (1928)

Directed by

Paul Fejos

Genre

romance film, part-talkie

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 09m

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 78 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two lonely working-class people meet by chance at Coney Island on the Fourth of July and fall quickly in love. The film follows their day together in New York City.

sentimentalwhimsicalbittersweetromanticupbeatnostalgicgentleurban

What happens

Lonesome is a 1928 American sound part-talkie comedy drama film directed by Paul Fejös, and starring Barbara Kent and Glenn Tryon. Although containing a few sequences with audible dialog, the majority of the film had a synchronized musical score with sound effects with English intertitles. The film was released in both sound-on-disc and sound-on-film formats. Its plot follows two working-class residents of New York City over a 24-hour-period, during which they have a chance meeting at Coney Island during the Independence Day weekend and swiftly fall in love with one another. It was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures. In 2010, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The film was released on Blu-ray disc and DVD on August 28, 2012, as part of the Criterion Collection. It was remade in 1935 as a comedy called The Affair of Susan. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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