Say It with Songs

Say It with Songs (1929)

Joe Lane, radio entertainer and songwriter, learns that the manager of the studio, Arthur Phillips, has made improper advances to his wife, Katherine. Infuriated, Lane engages him in a fight, and the encounter results in Phillips' accidental death. Joe goes to prison for a few years, and when he is released he visits his son, Little Pal, at school and is begged by him to run away together.

Date of release
1929-08-05
TMDB
5.5 / 10 (6)
Runtime
1h 35m
Genres
Music
Director
Lloyd Bacon

Casting

Interesting facts

Say It with Songs is a 1929 American sound (All-Talking) pre-Code musical drama film, directed by Lloyd Bacon and released by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film stars Al Jolson and Davey Lee and was a follow-up to their previous film, The Singing Fool (1928).

Production

Say It With Songs reunited Al Jolson with the boy actor, Davey Lee, of The Singing Fool fame, who had enthralled audiences in 1928. This, Jolson's third feature film, contains several firsts in his movie career: his first full-length talkie (unlike his previous two efforts, which were part-talkies with long sections of an essential silent picture – with a synchronized score and sound effects added – in addition to talking and singing sequences),…

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