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New Years Eve (1929 film)

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Duration
  

Language
  
Silent

Director
  
Henry Lehrman

Country
  
United States

Release date
  
February 24, 1929 (1929-02-24)

Writer
  
Richard Connell, Dwight Cummins

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.

Contents

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

  • Mary Astor – Marjorie Ware
  • Charles Morton – Edward Warren
  • Earle Fox – Barry Harmon
  • Florence Lake – Pearl
  • Arthur Stone – Steve
  • Helen Ware – Landlady
  • Freddie Burke Frederick – Little Brother
  • Jane La Verne – Little Girl
  • Sumner Getchell – Edward's friend
  • Stuart Erwin – Landlady's son
  • Virginia Vance – Little Girl's Mother
  • References

    New Year's Eve (1929 film) Wikipedia
    New Years Eve (1929 film) IMDb