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Varsity (1928)

Varsity poster
Directed by
Frank Tuttle
Genre
comedy film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 07m
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A college comedy from the silent-to-sound transition era. Students get into pranks and romances at a university.

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What happens

Varsity is a lost 1928 American sound part-talkie comedy film directed by Frank Tuttle, written by Howard Estabrook, George Marion Jr. and Wells Root, and starring Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Mary Brian, Chester Conklin, Phillips Holmes, Robert Ellis and John Westwood. In addition to sequences with audible dialogue or talking sequences, the film features a synchronized musical score and sound effects along with English intertitles. The soundtrack was recorded using the Western Electric sound-on-film system. The film was released on October 27, 1928, by Paramount Pictures. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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