From Headquarters (1929)

Directed by

Howard Bretherton

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 11m

Rated

NR

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A police detective investigates a murder case that leads him into danger. The film mixes silent intertitles with spoken dialogue and music.

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What happens

From Headquarters is a 1929 American sound part-talkie adventure drama film directed by Howard Bretherton and starring Monte Blue, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Gladys Brockwell, Lionel Belmore, and Henry B. Walthall. 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, 60 percent of the total running time featured dialogue. The soundtrack was recorded using the Vitaphone sound-on-disc system. The film was released by Warner Bros. Pictures on April 27, 1929. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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