Broadway
(1929) American
C/B&W : 107 minutes
Directed by Paul Fejos (Pál Fejös)

Cast: Glenn Tryon [Roy Lane], Evelyn Brent [Pearl], Merna Kennedy [Billie Moore], Robert Ellis [Steve Crandall], Thomas E. Jackson [Dan McCom], Paul Porcasi [Nick Verdis], Otis Harlan [‘Porky’ Thompson], Marion Lord [Lil Rice], Fritz Feld [Mose Levett], Leslie Fenton [‘Scar’ Edwards], Arthur Housman [Dolph], George Davis [Joe], Betty Francisco [Mazie], Edythe Flynn [Ruby], Florence Dudley [Ann], Ruby McCoy [Grace], Gus Armheim and His Cocoanut Grove Ambassadors

Universal Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Universal Pictures Corporation. / Produced by Carl Laemmle Jr. Screenplay by Edward T. Lowe Jr. and Charles Furthman, from the musical play Broadway by Jed Harris, Phillip Dunning and George Abbott. Songs “Broadway,” “The Chicken of the Egg,” “Hot Footin’ It,” “Hittin’ the Ceiling” and “Sing a Little Love Song” by Con Conrad, Sidney Mitchell and Archie Gottler. Art direction and set design by Charles D. Hall. Costume design by Johanna Mathieson. Choreography by Maurice L. Kusell. Special effects by Frank H. Booth. Cinematography by Hal Mohr. Sound engineer C. Roy Hunter. Synchronization score by Howard Jackson. Intertitles by Tom Reed. Edited by Robert Carlisle and Edward Cahn. Presented by Carl Laemmle (Sr.). / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. Technicolor two-strip color process sequences. Western Electric Vitaphone sound-on-disk sound system. / Nightclub scenes were shot in Technicolor. Silent version was also prepared and was shorter than the sound version. Parish-Gangster p. 57 lists the film’s length as 9661 feet. / Full-sound film.

Drama: Musical.

Survival Status: Print exists [16mm reduction positive].

Keywords: Art Deco - Color cinematography - Crime: Bootlegging, Murder - Criminals: Gangsters - Dancers - Death - Nightclubs - Police: Detectives - Synchronized sound film - USA: New York: New York: Broadway

Listing updated: 19 March 2004.

References: Basten-Technicolor p. 170; Edmonds-BigU pp. 154, 155, 156; Everson-American pp. 231, 246s, 314, 333, 338, 344; Everson-Detective pp. 51-56; Hirschhorn-Universal pp. 54, 63; Limbacher-Feature p. 32; Mandelbaum-Screen pp. 3, 103, 108; Parish-Gangster pp. 2-3, 12, 57-59, 61; Shipman-Cinema p. 104; Vermilye-Twenties p. 197 : ClasIm-223 p. 59; Vitaphone-1-4.