The Voice of the City
(1929) United States of America
B&W : Nine reels / 7427 feet / 82 minutes
Directed by Willard Mack
Cast: Robert Ames [Bobby Doyle], Willard Mack [Biff], Sylvia Field [Beebe], James Farley [Wilmot], John Miljan [Wilkes], Clark Marshall [Johnny], Duane Thompson [Mary], Tom McGuire [Kelly], Alice Moe [Martha], Beatrice Banyard [Betsy]
Cosmopolitan Productions and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation [A Cosmopolitan Production; A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture]. / Screenplay by Willard Mack, with dialogue by Willard Mack, from a screen story by Willard Mack. Art direction by Cedric Gibbons. Cinematography by Maximilian Fabian. Sound recording engineer, Douglas Shearer. Film editors, William S. Gray and Basil Wrangell. Intertitles written by Joe Farnham. / © 1 April 1929 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation [LP263] (sound version). © 9 September 1929 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation [LP662] (silent version). Released 13 April 1929. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Working title: Hunted. [?] A remake of The Night Rose (1921)? The film was also released in the USA in a silent version (at 5319 feet) by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation in [?] September? 1929. / [?] Full-sound film?
Drama: Crime.
Survival status: Print exists.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Law: Enforcement: Police: Detectives - Synchronized sound film
Listing updated: 20 September 2023.
References: Everson-Detective pp. 51, 55 : ClasIm-279 p. 55 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.
Home video: DVD.
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