The Spieler (1928)

Directed by

Tay Garnett

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 04m

Rating

7.8 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man gets involved in gambling and the trouble that follows. The film blends silent-era visuals with early recorded sound.

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What happens

The Spieler is a 1928 American sound part-talkie drama film directed by Tay Garnett and starring Alan Hale, Clyde Cook, and Renée Adorée. While the film had a few sequences with audible dialog, the majority of the film featured a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process. The film's sets were designed by the art director Edward C. Jewell. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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