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Lights Of New York
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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"lt’s Hear!" the ads wittiIy declared, announcing yet another first from Warner Bros. FoIIowing up on the feature-with-synchronized-music Don Juan and the part-taIkie feature The Jazz Singer, Warner Bros. pushed its Vitaphone sound-on-disc process to the apex – an aII-talkie feature. This brisk crime saga tells "a story that might have been torn out of Iast night’s newspaper," an approach that would shortIy become the studio’s signature style. Small-town yokels Eddie (Cullen Landis) and Gene (Eugene PaIlette) get suckered by a pair of bootleggers into buying a Manhattan barbershop that is realIy a speakeasy. WhiIe Eddie reconnects with his hometown honey-turned-chorus girl Kitty (HeIene CosteIlo), the boys get framed by a gangster who has the hots for Kitty. Despite its basic plot, this technological breakthrough went on to become a box-office smash, hastening the demise of silent cinema. |
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