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Roy Lane and Billie Moore rehearse an act at the Paradise nightclub. Bootlegger Steve Crandall wants Billie and saves her job with the owner, Nick Verdis. Steve shoots Scar Edwards, who comes for liquor Steve's gang stole, then gives Billie a bracelet so she will forget what she saw. Detective Dan McCorn arrests Roy. Billie gets him out, then sees Steve kill Nick. She stays quiet until she learns Steve means to kill Roy. Pearl, who has heard Steve confess, shoots him in Nick's office. McCorn calls it suicide. Roy and Billie go on with the act. Glenn Tryon plays Roy. Merna Kennedy plays Billie. Evelyn Brent plays Pearl.
Cast & crew
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Paul Fejos directed. Carl Laemmle Jr. produced. Charles Furthman, Edward T. Lowe Jr., and Tom Reed wrote it from the 1926 play by George Abbott and Philip Dunning. Hal Mohr photographed. Howard Jackson composed. Edward L. Cahn edited. Universal's first talking picture with Technicolor sequences. New York opening May 27, 1929. The listed length is 104 minutes. Robert Ellis plays Steve. Thomas E. Jackson plays McCorn. Paul Porcasi plays Nick. Criterion issued it on Blu-ray and DVD in 2012, paired with Fejos's Lonesome.
Themes
Look
Hal Mohr shot the Paradise club and the Technicolor sequences.
Technique
Talking picture with Technicolor sequences, Universal's first of that kind.
Music
Howard Jackson composed the score.
Preservation
A print survives. Criterion released it in 2012.
Notes
- It is a Universal picture, not a Pathé release.
- The color is in sequences, not the whole film.
- Leslie Fenton plays Scar Edwards.
- The 2012 disc is the Criterion edition with Lonesome.
Scenes
- Steve shoots Scar Edwards in the club.
- Pearl kills Steve in Nick's office, and McCorn calls it suicide.
Influenced by
- The 1926 play Broadway by George Abbott and Philip Dunning
Also available
- Criterion Collection Blu-ray and DVD (2012, with Lonesome)
