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Clear the Decks (1929)

Clear the Decks poster
Directed by
Joseph Henabery
Genre
comedy film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 10m
Rated
NR
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A comedy about a man who gets into various mishaps and romantic entanglements. It includes both spoken dialogue and silent-era title cards with background music.

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What happens

Clear the Decks is a 1929 American sound part-talkie comedy film directed by Joseph Henabery and written by Earle Snell, Gladys Lehman, Albert DeMond and Charles Henry Smith. 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 Western Electric sound-on-film system. The film is based on the 1926 novel When the Devil Was Sick by E.J. Rath. The film stars Reginald Denny, Olive Hasbrouck, Otis Harlan, Lucien Littlefield, Collette Merton and Robert Anderson. The film was released on March 3, 1929, by Universal Pictures. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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