The Spieler
1928 film
- Hal Conklin
- Tay Garnett
- John W. Krafft
- Alan Hale
- Clyde Cook
- Renée Adorée
Production
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Ralph Block Productions
Release date
- December 20, 1928 (1928-12-20)
Running time
English intertitles
The Spieler is a 1928 American sound part-talkie drama film directed by Tay Garnett and starring Alan Hale, Clyde Cook and Renée Adorée.[1] While the film had a few sequences with audible dialog, the majority of the film featured a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process. The film's sets were designed by the art director Edward C. Jewell.
Plot
Cast
- Alan Hale as Flash
- Clyde Cook as Luke aka 'Perfesser' McIntosh
- Renée Adorée as Cleo d'Alzelle
- Fred Kohler as Red Moon
- Fred Warren as The Baker
- James Quinn as The Rabbit
- Kewpie Morgan as Butch
- Billie Latimer as Bearded Lady
Music
The film featured a theme song entitled "Your Heart Looks Into Mine." Josiah Zuro arranged and directed the recording session for the soundtrack.
See also
- List of early sound feature films (1926–1929)
References
- ^ Munden p.756
Bibliography
- Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.
External links
- The Spieler at IMDb
- The Spieler is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive
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Films directed by Tay Garnett
- The Spieler (1928)
- Celebrity (1928)
- The Flying Fool (1929)
- Oh, Yeah! (1929)
- Her Man (1930)
- Officer O'Brien (1930)
- Bad Company (1931)
- Prestige (1932)
- One Way Passage (1932)
- Okay, America! (1932)
- Destination Unknown (1933)
- S.O.S. Iceberg (1933)
- China Seas (1935)
- Professional Soldier (1935)
- She Couldn't Take It (1935)
- Love Is News (1937)
- Slave Ship (1937)
- Stand-In (1937)
- Joy of Living (1938)
- Trade Winds (1938)
- Eternally Yours (1939)
- Slightly Honorable (1939)
- Seven Sinners (1940)
- Cheers for Miss Bishop (1941)
- My Favorite Spy (1942)
- Bataan (1943)
- The Cross of Lorraine (1943)
- Mrs. Parkington (1944)
- The Valley of Decision (1945)
- The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
- Wild Harvest (1947)
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949)
- The Fireball (1950)
- Soldiers Three (1951)
- Cause for Alarm! (1951)
- One Minute to Zero (1952)
- Main Street to Broadway (1953)
- The Black Knight (1954)
- Seven Wonders of the World (1956)
- A Terrible Beauty (1960)
- Cattle King (1963)
- The Delta Factor (1970)
- Challenge to Be Free (1975)
- Timber Tramps (1975)
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