 The Jazz Singer 1927  N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Alan Crosland
Cast: Al Jolson, May McAvoy, Warner Oland, William Demarest, Roscoe Karns, Myrna Loy, Eugenie Besserer, Otto Lederer, Robert Gordon, Richard Tucker, Nat Carr, Will Walling
Although this film is considered the first "talkie," in reality it is a silent film with a musical score. Al Jolson plays Jack Robin, the son of a cantor (Warner Oland) who, to his father's regret, finds jazz more appealing than the music of his father's synagogue. Warner Brothers received an Honorary Oscar for this pioneer talkie.
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Welcome Danger 1929  N/R, 112 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Clyde Bruckman, Malcolm St. Clair
Cast: Harold Lloyd, Barbara Kent, Douglas Haig, Noah Young, Charles Middleton, Will Walling, James Wang, Nelson McDowell, Edgar Kennedy, Jim Mason, Eddy Chandler, Tetsu Komai, James B. Leong, Leo Willis
In silent-screen-films' comedian Harold Lloyd's first "talkie" film, he plays botany student Harold Bledsoe who reluctantly succeeds his father on the San Francisco police force. On the way to his new job, he meets Billie Lee (Barbara Kent), and, despite problems, romance blooms. He succeeds as a police officer when he teams up with Officer Patrick Clancy (Noah Young), and, together, they break up a drug-dealing ring in Chinatown.
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