Tenderloin (film)

Tenderloin

theatrical release poster
Directed by Michael Curtiz
Written by Edward T. Lowe Jr.
(scenario, adaptation, dialogue & titles)
Joseph Jackson
(dialogue & titles)
Story by "Melvin Crossman"
(Darryl Zanuck)
Starring Dolores Costello
Cinematography Hal Mohr
Edited by Ralph Dawson
Production
company
Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures
Release dates
  • March 14, 1928 (1928-03-14) (NYC)
  • March 28, 1928 (1928-03-28) (US)
  • [1] ([1])
Running time
 85 minutes
Country United States
Language English

Tenderloin (1928) is a Part-talkie crime film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Dolores Costello.[2] While the film was a part-talkie, it was mostly a silent film with a synchronized musical score and sound effects on Vitaphone discs. It was produced and released by Warner Bros. Tenderloin is considered a lost film, with no prints currently known to exist.[3][4][1]

Plot

Rose Shannon (Dolores Costello), a dancing girl at "Kelly's," in the "Tenderloin" district of New York City, worships at a distance Chuck White (Conrad Nagel), a younger member of the gang that uses it as their hangout. Chuck's interest in her is as just another toy to play with. Rose is implicated in a crime which she knows nothing about. The police pick her up, and the gang sends Chuck to take care of her in the event she may know or disclose something that will implicate the gang.

Cast

Source:[1]

Premiere Vitaphone short subjects

Tenderloin premiered at the Warners' Theatre in New York City on March 14, 1928.

Title Year
Orpheus in der Unterwelt Overture 1927
Beniamino Gigli & Giuseppe de Luca in Duet from Act 1 of "The Pearl Fishers" (Les pêcheurs de perles) 1927
Abe Lyman and His Orchestra 1928
Xavier Cugat and His Gigolos ("A Spanish Ensemble”) 1928
Adele Rowland in "Stories in Song" 1928

Production

Tenderloin was the second Vitaphone feature with talking sequences that Warner Bros. released, five months after The Jazz Singer. The film contained 15 minutes of spoken dialog, and Warners promoted it as the first film in which actors actually spoke their roles. Reportedly, at the film's premiere, the feature was met with derisive laughter as a result of the film's stilted dialogue, resulting in two of the four talking sequences being eliminated during the first week of the film's premiere run.[5]

See also

References

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 Tenderloin at the American Film Institute Catalog
  2. ↑ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:Tenderloin
  3. ↑ American Film Institute (1971) The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30
  4. ↑ Tenderloin at Arne Andersen's Lost Film Files
  5. ↑ "Notes" TCM.com

Further reading



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