Tenderloin (film)
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| Directed by | Michael Curtiz |
| Written by | Joseph Jackson Edward T. Lowe Jr. "Melvin Crossman" (Darryl Zanuck) |
| Starring | Dolores Costello Conrad Nagel |
| Cinematography | Hal Mohr |
| Edited by | Ralph Dawson |
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Tenderloin (1928) is a Part-talkie Vitaphone crime film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Dolores Costello.[1] While the film was a part-talkie, it was mostly silent with a synchronized musical score and sound effects. It was produced and released by Warner Bros. Tenderloin is considered a lost film, with no prints currently known to exist.[2][3][4]
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Plot
Rose Shannon, a dancing girl at "Kelly's," in the 'Tenderloin' district of New York City, worships at a distance Chuck White, a younger member of the gang that uses the place as their hangout. Chuck's interest in her is only just as another toy to play with. Rose is unknowingly placed in a position in which she is implicated in a crime which she knows nothing about. The police pick her up, and the gang sends Chuck to take care of her in the event she may know or disclose something that will implicate the gang.
Cast
- Dolores Costello as Rose Shannon[5]
- Conrad Nagel as Chuck White
- Mitchell Lewis as The Professor
- Dan Wolheim as "Lefty"
- John Miljan as Bank teller
- George E. Stone as Sparrow
- Pat Hartigan as "The Mug"
- Fred Kelsey as Detective Simpson
- G. Raymond Nye as Cowles
- Evelyn Pierce as Bobbie
- Dorothy Vernon as Aunt Molly
Production
It was the second Vitaphone feature with talking sequences that Warner Bros. released, five months after The Jazz Singer. The film contained 15 minutes of spoken dialog, and the Warner Bros. Studio promoted it as the first film in which actors actually spoke their roles. Reportedly, at the film's premiere, the feature was met with derisive laughter as a result of the film's stilted dialogue.
Premiere Vitaphone Short Subjects
Tenderloin premiered at the Warners' Theatre in New York City on March 14, 1928.
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| Orpheus in der Unterwelt Overture | 1927 |
| Beniamino Gigli & Giuseppe de Luca in Duet from Act 1 of "The Pearl Fishers" (Les pêcheurs de perles) | 1927 |
| Abe Lyman and His Orchestra | 1928 |
| Xavier Cugat and his Gigolos | 1928 |
| A Spanish Ensemble | 1928 |
| Adele Rowland in "Stories in Song" | 1928 |
See also
References
- ↑ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:Tenderloin
- ↑ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30 by The American Film Institute, c.1971
- ↑ Tenderloin at Arne Andersen's Lost Film Files: Warner Brothers Pictures - 1928
- ↑ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Tenderloin
- ↑ Dolores Costello in Tenderloin
External links
- Tenderloin Vitaphone soundtrack disk reel 1 at SoundCloud
- New York Times feature
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Tenderloin at IMDb
- Tenderloin at AllMovie
- Tenderloin at the TCM Movie Database
- Tenderloin at silentera.com
- Tenderloin lobby art poster
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