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One Stolen Night (1929)

One Stolen Night poster
Directed by
Scott R. Dunlap
Genre
adventure film, crime film
Country
United States
Runtime
58 min
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman gets caught up in danger and romance with an Arab man. It is an early sound film with talking sequences and music based on a short story.

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What happens

One Stolen Night is a 1929 American sound part-talkie adventure crime film directed by Scott R. Dunlap, and starring Betty Bronson, William Collier Jr., Mitchell Lewis, Harry Todd, and Charles Hill Mailes. 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, 50 percent of the total running time featured dialogue. The soundtrack was recorded using the Vitaphone sound-on-disc system. The film is based on the short story The Arab by D. D. Calhoun. It is a remake of the 1923 film with the same name. The film was released by Warner Bros. Pictures on March 16, 1929. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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