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Show Folks (1928)

Show Folks poster
Directed by
Paul L. Stein
Genre
silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 10m
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young performer tries to make it on the vaudeville stage. He faces tough breaks and romantic complications along the way.

melodramaticromanticearnestold-fashionedsentimentallivelyquiet

What happens

Show Folks is a 1928 American part-talkie sound drama film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Eddie Quillan, Lina Basquette, and Carole Lombard. Although the film featured a few sequences with audible dialogue, the majority of the film had a synchronized musical score with sound effects. The film was released in both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film format. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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