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No Defense (1929)

No Defense poster
Directed by
Lloyd Bacon
Genre
romance film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 02m
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A romantic drama from the early sound era. The story involves a man and a woman navigating their relationship with spoken dialogue and musical accompaniment.

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What happens

No Defense is a 1929 American sound part-talkie romantic drama film directed by Lloyd Bacon and starring Monte Blue. 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 Vitaphone sound-on-disc system. According to the film review in Variety, 60 percent of the total running time featured dialogue. The film was produced and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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