CrimeYear1929Duration1h 44mIMDb6.2

Broadway

CrimeMusicRomance

A naive young dancer in a Broadway show innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and murder.

Trailer

Cast

PF

Pál Fejös

Director

Glenn Tryon

Roy Lane

Evelyn Brent

Pearl

Merna Kennedy

Billie Moore

Thomas E. Jackson

Dan McCorn

RE

Robert Ellis

Steve Crandall

Paul Porcasi

Nick Verdis

Leslie Fenton

Jim 'Scar' Edwards

Otis Harlan

Andrew 'Porky' Thompson

Arthur Housman

Dolph

Betty Francisco

Mazie

EF

Edythe Flynn

Ruby

FD

Florence Dudley

Ann

RM

Ruby McCoy

Grace

ML

Marion Lord

Lil Rice

George Davis

Joe the Waiter

GA

Gus Arnheim

Orchestra Leader

MB

Mary Bertrand

Undetermined Secondary Role

Edgar Dearing

Crandall Mug at Party

PD

Philip Dunning

Writer

George Abbott

Writer

Edward T. Lowe Jr.

Writer

CF

Charles Furthman

Writer

TR

Tom Reed

Writer

Comments

5 Comments

user5372362717462 MalaikaMay 29, 2023

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khaled خالدNov 16, 2022

Broadway

Geraldy NtariNov 16, 2022

I just came home from maybe the premier of the restored version with 2-color finale. The screening is part of a terrific series at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan going through a dozen or more Universal recently restored films. Last night's King of Jazz was one of the greatest movie going experiences I ever had. Ol' Man Law of Averages caught up tonight. This movie is cringe-worthy terrible, and if you want to see it for crane shots be my guest. For Historians and obsessives only. A hackneyed gangster/nightclub story. Acting that was so wooden you wanted to leap into the screen and help out. One standout character. Leading lady apparently recuperating from a recent lobotomy. There was some potential in the nightclub acts but thanks to a blurry shoot and that damn crane (again), the dancers look like mice.

Usha UppretiNov 16, 2022

The Film Forum in NYC screened the sound version of this film on July 24,2012. The Technicolor last reel of course is lost but the rest of the film was complete and ran about 108 minutes. Will not give away the plot but is worth viewing just to see the innovative use of a giant camera crane to film the Night-Club scenes. Really amazing for a film made in 1929. I must say that the acting is really not that great for a film listed as a Universal "Super Production" in the opening credits.Glenn Tryon is passable playing the role of the comedian but you have to wonder how much better the film would have been if Lee Tracy, who played the same role in the Broadway Musical that the film was based on had appeared in the film also.

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