Lonesome (1928 film)
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Lonesome is a 1928 American sound part-talkie comedy drama film directed by Paul Fejös, and starring Barbara Kent and Glenn Tryon. Although containing a few sequences with audible dialog, the majority of the film had a synchronized musical score with sound effects with English intertitles. The film was released in both sound-on-disc and sound-on-film formats. Its plot follows two working-class residents of New York City over a 24-hour-period, during which they have a chance meeting at Coney Island during the Independence Day weekend and swiftly fall in love with one another. It was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures.
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Directed by | Paul Fejös |
Written by | Tom Reed Edward T. Lowe Jr. |
Story by | Mann Page |
Produced by | Carl Laemmle Carl Laemmle Jr. Oskar Schubert-Stevens |
Starring | |
Cinematography | Gilbert Warrenton |
Edited by | Frank Atkinson |
Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 69 minutes (Silent Version) 75 minutes (Sound Version) |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
In 2010, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[1][2] The film was released on Blu-ray disc and DVD on August 28, 2012, as part of the Criterion Collection.[3]
It was remade in 1935 as a comedy called The Affair of Susan.