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State Street Sadie (1928)

State Street Sadie poster
Directed by
Archie Mayo
Genre
drama film, silent film, crime film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 15m
Rated
NR
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young woman in a city environment gets involved with criminal elements. The story follows her dealings with a gang and a police investigation.

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What happens

State Street Sadie is a 1928 American sound part-talkie crime drama film directed by Archie Mayo. In addition to sequences with audible dialogue or talking sequences, the film features a synchronized musical score and sound effects along with English intertitles. According to the film review in Variety, only about 10 minutes of the total running time featured dialogue. The soundtrack was recorded using the Vitaphone sound-on-disc system. This is regarded as a lost film. The plot of the film is suspiciously similar to that of The Girl from Chicago filmed the previous year and also seems to similar to the plot of the 1924 silent film Those Who Dance. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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