Saturday's Children (1929)
- Directed by
- Gregory La Cava
- Genre
- comedy film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Rating
- 8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A romantic comedy from the early sound era. A young woman navigates love and marriage choices. The film is based on a play and includes both spoken dialogue and silent intertitles.
lightheartedplayfulbreezyclassicromanticwhimsicaldatedtalky
What happens
Saturday's Children is a 1929 American sound part-talkie romantic-comedy film directed by Gregory La Cava, and starring Corinne Griffith, Grant Withers, Albert Conti, Alma Tell, Lucien Littlefield. 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 sound was recorded via the Vitaphone sound-on-disc process. The film was released by Warner Bros. Pictures on April 14, 1929. The film is based on the 1927 play Saturday's Children by Maxwell Anderson. It was remade three-times of the original Maxwell Anderson play with the other versions released in 1935 under the title Maybe It's Love and Saturday's Children released in 1940. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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