New Year's Eve (1929 film)

New Year's Eve
Directed by Henry Lehrman
Produced by William Fox
Written by Richard Connell(story:One Hundred Dollars)
Dwight Cummins(scenario)
William Kernell(intertitles)
Starring Mary Astor
Charles Morton
Music by Samuel L. Rothafel
Cinematography Conrad Wells
Distributed by Fox Film Corporation
Release dates
  • February 24, 1929 (1929-02-24)
Running time
70 minutes
Country United States
Language Silent

New Year's Eve is a lost 1929 film drama produced and distributed by Fox Film Corporation and starring Mary Astor and Charles Morton. Veteran Henry Lehrman, who had worked with Mack Sennett and Charlie Chaplin, is the director. Samuel L. Rothafel wrote the music for film. The Western Electric Sound System was used but a silent version was also made. Max Gold was an assistant director.[1][2][3]

This was not a talking film despite it being made in 1929. It was a silent with music and effects soundtrack.

Plot

Saddled with the care of a younger brother and unable to find work, Marjorie Ware puts aside her scruples and goes to see a gambler who has long cast a lustful eye on her. A pickpocket kills the gambler, and the police find Marjorie at the scene of the crime, charging her with the murder. The pickpocket later falls to his death, however, and evidence is uncovered that sets Mary free, cleared of all suspicion of guilt in the gambler's death. Mary is then reunited with Edward Warren, a man who once did her a great kindness.

Cast

References

  1. The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30 by The American Film Institute, c.1971
  2. New Year's Eve at silentera.com
  3. New Year's Eve at Arne Andersen's Lost Film Files: Fox Film Corporation
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