The Sophomore
(1929) United States of America
B&W : Eight reels / 6526 feet / 73 minutes
Directed by Leo McCarey
Cast: Eddie Quillan [Joe Collins], Sally O’Neil [Margie Callahan], Stanley Smith [Tom Week], Jeanette Loff [Barbara Lange], Russell Gleason [Dutch], Sarah Padden [Mrs. Collins], Brooks Benedict [Armstrong], Spec O’Donnell [Joe Collins’ nephew], Walter O’Keefe [the radio announcer]
Pathé Exchange, Incorporated, production; distributed by Pathé Exchange, Incorporated. / Dialogue by Earl Baldwin and Walter De Leon, from an adaptation by Joseph Franklin Poland of a screen story by Corey Ford and T.H. Wenning. Production supervision by William Conselman. Production management by Richard Blaydon. Song “Little by Little” by Bobby Dolan and Walter O’Keefe (music and lyrics). Assistant director, E.J. Babille. Dialogue direction by Anthony Brown. Cinematography by John J. Mescall. Sound engineering by Charles O’Loughlin and Ben Winkler. Film editor, Doane Harrison. Presented by Pathé Exchange, Incorporated. / © 16 September 1929 by Pathé Exchange, Incorporated [LP691]. Premiered 23 August 1929 in New York, New York. Released 24 August 1929. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. RCA Photophone sound-on-film synchronized sound system. / The film was also released in the USA in [?] six? reels (at 5799 feet) by Pathé Exchange, Incorporated, in 1929. / Full-sound film.
Comedy.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Synchronized sound film
Listing updated: 29 April 2023.
References: Everson-American p. 338; Skretvedt-Magic p. 147 : Website-AFI.
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