LONESOME (THE CRITERION COLLECTION) [BLU-RAY]

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• Release Year: 1928
• Genre: Comedy; Drama; Romance
• Plot: A buried treasure from Hollywood's golden age, Lonesome is the creation of a little-known but audacious and one-of-a-kind filmmaker, Paul Fejos (also an explorer, anthropologist, and doctor!). While under contract at Universal, Fejos pulled out all the stops for this lovely, largely silent New York City symphony set in antic Coney Island during the Fourth of July weekend, employing color tinting, superimposition effects, experimental editing, and a roving camera (plus three dialogue scenes, added to satisfy the new craze for talkies). For years, Lonesome has been a rare treat for festival and cinematheque audiences, but it's only now coming to home video. Rarer still are the two other Fejos films from his Universal years included in this release: The Last Performance and a reconstruction of the previously incomplete sound version of Broadway, in its time the most expensive film ever produced by the studio.;
• Cast: Barbara Kent; Glenn Tryon; Fay Holderness; Gusztáv Pártos; Eddie Phillips; Andy Devine; Edgar Dearing; Louise Emmons; Fred Esmelton; Jack Raymond; Churchill Ross; Pál Fejös; Mann Page; Edward T. Lowe Jr.; Tom Reed; Carl Laemmle Jr.; Gilbert Warrenton; Frank Atkinson; Joseph Cherniavsky; Charles D. Hall
• Director: Pál Fejös
• Runtime: 1:10
• Company: Universal Pictures, Universal Studios Home Entertainment LLC, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie