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Kid Gloves (1929)

Kid Gloves poster
Directed by
Ray Enright
Genre
drama film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 08m
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man deals with personal and romantic struggles in a pre-Code era. The movie is a part-talkie with synchronized music and sound effects.

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What happens

Kid Gloves is a 1929 American sound part-talkie pre-Code drama film directed by Ray Enright, and starring Conrad Nagel, Lois Wilson, Edward Earle, Edna Murphy, and Maude Turner Gordon. 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 Harrison's Reports, 75 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 March 23, 1929. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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