William Haines (Don Davis), Anita Page (Chrystal Malone), Eileen Percy (Mazie), Frank Currier (Davis), Polly Moran (landlady), Bert Roach (Lane), William V. Mong (city editor), Matthew Betz (killer), and Sojin.
Director: SAM WOOD. Screenplay: Raymond L. Schrock. Titles: Joseph Farnham. Original screen story: Dale Van Every. Photography: William Daniels. Film editors: Margaret Booth and John Colton. Art director: Cedric Gibbons. Costumes: Gilbert Clark. Producer: Sam Wood.
Copyright 23 June 1928 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corp. New York opening at the Capitol, 15 July 1928. U.S. release: 30 June 1928. 8 reels. 7,184 feet.
SYNOPSIS: A newspaperman becomes embroiled in various melodramatic adventures.
NOTES: Academy Award, Joseph Farnham, Title Writing (together with The Fair Co-Ed and Laugh, Clown, Laugh).
COMMENT: I can't stand William Haines. By which I mean not the man himself, of course, but his screen persona: bumptious, arrogant, self-centered, crash-through-no-matter-what! All girls are his meat, all rivals his poison. Even deprived of his grating voice, he's still a pain. This movie is no exception.
The lovely Anita Page is also on hand. Alas, she struggles to make some headway against Mr. Haines, but to little avail.
Director: SAM WOOD. Screenplay: Raymond L. Schrock. Titles: Joseph Farnham. Original screen story: Dale Van Every. Photography: William Daniels. Film editors: Margaret Booth and John Colton. Art director: Cedric Gibbons. Costumes: Gilbert Clark. Producer: Sam Wood.
Copyright 23 June 1928 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corp. New York opening at the Capitol, 15 July 1928. U.S. release: 30 June 1928. 8 reels. 7,184 feet.
SYNOPSIS: A newspaperman becomes embroiled in various melodramatic adventures.
NOTES: Academy Award, Joseph Farnham, Title Writing (together with The Fair Co-Ed and Laugh, Clown, Laugh).
COMMENT: I can't stand William Haines. By which I mean not the man himself, of course, but his screen persona: bumptious, arrogant, self-centered, crash-through-no-matter-what! All girls are his meat, all rivals his poison. Even deprived of his grating voice, he's still a pain. This movie is no exception.
The lovely Anita Page is also on hand. Alas, she struggles to make some headway against Mr. Haines, but to little avail.
