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Pointed Heels
(1929) American
Color/B&W : Seven reels / 5689 feet
Directed by A. Edward Sutherland

Cast: William Powell [Robert Courtland], Fay Wray [Lora Nixon], Helen Kane [Dot Nixon], Richard ‘Skeets’ Gallagher [Dash Nixon], Phillips Holmes [Donald Ogden], Adrienne Dore [Kay Wilson], Eugene Pallette [Joe Clark]

Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation. / Screenplay by Florence Ryerson and John V.A. Weaver, from the short story “Pointed Heels” by Charles William Brackett (Charles Brackett). Song “I Have to Have You” by Richard A. Whiting (music) and Leo Robin (lyrics). Song “Ain’t-Cha?” by Mack Gordon and Max Rich (music and lyrics). Dialogue direction by Perry Ivins. Cinematography by Rex Wimpy. Ballet music score by Dimitri Tiomkin. Edited by Jane Loring. / © 27 December 1929 by Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation [LP948]. Released 21 December 1929. / [?] Movietone 35mm spherical 1.20:1 format and/or Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format? Technicolor two-strip color process sequences. Western Electric Movietone sound-on-film sound system. / Powell’s 40th film. The film was also released in the USA in a silent version. / Full-sound film.

Comedy.

Survival Status: Print exists in the UCLA Film and Television Archive film archive.

Keywords: Color cinematography - Synchronized sound film

Listing updated: 16 December 2008.

References: Basten-Technicolor p. 170; Quirk-Powell pp. 104-105, 107 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.