Young Nowheres

Young Nowheres (1929)

Just a "Young Nowheres" Going nowheres! Wanting Nothing! Until Love gave him a taste of the happiness he could never get!

Albert Whalen, a hotel elevator operator, together with one of the pretty chambermaids, Annie Jackson, on the hotel staff are accused of breaking and entering a suite belonging to one of the guests, Mr. Cleaver. They are caught in the suite, but unexpected circumstances caused them to be there. Their explanations are not believed. A lost film.

Date of release
1929-10-20
TMDB
8.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 5m
Genres
Drama, Romance
Director
Frank Lloyd

Casting

Interesting facts

Young Nowheres is a 1929 American sound (All-Talking) drama film directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Richard Barthelmess, Marian Nixon and Bert Roach. It was produced and released by First National Pictures with a Vitaphone soundtrack in both silent and sound versions.

Background

Ida Alexa Ross Wylie's short story of the same name was published in The Saturday Evening Post in 1927. Director Louis King read the story and bought the rights in order to adapt it for the screen. He approached Richard Barthelmess, who had played a similar role in Tol'able David (1921), for the lead role, but First National Pictures refused to lend Barthelmess for the project.

The story was again adapted in 1937's That Man's Here Again, directed by King.

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