State Street Sadie (1928)
SEE AND HEAR Conrad Nagel TALKING on the perfected VITAPHONE
Unassuming clerk Tom Blake is framed for the murder of a policeman in the midst of a violent bank robbery. Considered a lost film.
- Date of release
- 1928-08-25
- TMDB
- 8.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 1h 15m
- Genres
- Crime, Drama
- Director
- Archie Mayo
Casting
- Conrad Nagel — Ralph Blake
- Myrna Loy — Sadie
- William Russell — The Bat
- George E. Stone — Slinky
- Pat Hartigan — Policeman 'Bull' Hawkins
- Charles K. French — Police Chief
Interesting facts
State Street Sadie is a 1928 American sound part-talkie crime drama film directed by Archie Mayo. In addition to sequences with audible dialogue or talking sequences, the film features a synchronized musical score and sound effects along with English intertitles. According to the film review in Variety, only about 10 minutes of the total running time featured dialogue. The soundtrack was recorded using the Vitaphone sound-on-disc system. This is regarded as a lost film. The plot of the film is suspiciously similar to that of The Girl from Chicago filmed the previous year and also seems to similar to the plot of the 1924 silent film Those Who Dance.
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