Old San Francisco
| Old San Francisco | |
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| Directed by | Alan Crosland |
| Written by | Darryl F. Zanuck (story) Anthony Coldeway (screenplay) Jack Jarmuth (titles) |
| Starring | Dolores Costello Warner Oland Charles Emmett Mack Anna May Wong |
| Music by | Hugo Riesenfeld |
| Cinematography | Hal Mohr |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
| Release date(s) | September 4, 1927 |
| Running time | 88 mins. |
| Country | US |
| Language | Silent film(English intertitles); Vitaphone version |
Old San Francisco (1927) is a silent movie which was released by Warner Brothers.
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[edit] Production background
The film was released in a silent version and in a Vitaphone version, with sound-on-disc recording of music and sound effects only. The film was released by Warner Brothers, directed by Alan Crosland, and starred Dolores Costello. It was the fifth Warner Brothers feature film to have Vitaphone musical accompaniment.
Just one month later, on October 6, Warner Brothers released The Jazz Singer with music, sound effects, and spoken dialogue. Warner Brothers later reused some of the footage from Old San Francisco for the 1906 San Francisco earthquake sequence in The Sisters (1938).[1]
[edit] Cast
- Dolores Costello - Dolores Vasquez
- Warner Oland - Chris Buckwell
- Charles Emmett Mack - Terrence O'Shaughnessy (billed Charles E. Mack)
- Josef Swickard - Don Hernandez de Vasquez
- Anders Randolf - Michael Brandon (as Anders Randolph)
- Angelo Rossitto - Chang Loo, a dwarf (as Angelo Rossita)
- Anna May Wong - A Flower of the Orient
cast in prologue
- Lawson Butt - Captain Enrique de Solano Y Vasquez
- Walter McGrail - Vasquez's Grandson who gets shot
- Otto Matieson - another Vasquez Grandson
- Martha Mattox - Mother Vasquez
- Thomas Santschi - Captain Stoner
uncredited cast
- Louise Carver - Big nosed woman on the Mile of Hell
- Rose Dione - Madame in Den of Iniquity
- Willie Fung - Chang Sue Lee's Laughing Servant
- Tom McGuire - Man at Poodle Dog Cafe
- John Miljan - Don Luis
- Sojin - Lu Fong
- James Wang - one of Chang Sue Lee's Servants
[edit] Film Preservation
This movie survives, and was released on DVD in the Warner Bros. Archive Collection series on September 15, 2009.
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Old San Francisco at IMDB
- Old San Francisco; allmovie.com
- Anna May Wong, Warner Oland & Dolores Costello in a scene from the film
- poster to the film
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