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The Big Squawk
(1929) United States of America
B&W : Two reels
Directed by Warren H. Doane (Warren Doane)
Cast: Charley Chase [Charley Chase, the saxophone player], Nena Quartaro (Nina Quartero) [Mary], Gale Henry [the girls’ chaperone]; Jay Eaton [Joe, Charley’s friend], Edgar Kennedy [the orchestra leader], Dolores Brinkman [Joe’s date], [?] ? [George, Mary’s dance partner], Earl McCarthy [a dancing club patron], Eleanor Fredericks [one of the girls], Gus Arnheim and His Orchestra [the country club band]
Hal Roach Studios, Incorporated, production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation [A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Talking Picture]. / Produced by Hal Roach. From a screen story by Leo McCarey. Photographed (cinematography) by Len Powers. Sound recording engineer, Elmer Raguse. Film editor, Richard Currier (Richard C. Currier). Silent version intertitles written by H.M. Walker. Presented by Hal Roach. / Released 25 May 1929. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. Western Electric Vitaphone sound-on-disc synchronized sound system. / Chase’s first talkie. Hal Roach Studios production number C-21. In long and medium shots, the actors do not speak in their own voices but lip-synch to [?] either dialog spoken by other actors off-camera or prerecorded dialog? for technical sound-recording reasons. The film was also released in the USA in a silent version by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation in 1929. / Full-sound film.
Comedy.
Survival status: Print exists.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Bathrooms: Showers - Boats: Rowboats - Cabins - Country clubs - Dancing - Fire - Musical instruments: Saxophones - Musicians - Rain - Synchronized sound film - Transportation: Automobiles - Weapons: Shotguns
Listing updated: 3 October 2023.
References: Film credits, film viewing : Maltin-Selected p. 62 : ClasIm-226 p. C18 : Website-IMDb.
Home video: DVD.
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