Lights of New York

"It's Hear!" the ads wittily declared, announcing yet another first from Warner Bros. Following up on the feature-with-synchronized-music Don Juan and the part-talkie feature The Jazz Singer, Warner Bros. pushed its Vitaphone sound-on-disc process to the apex -- an all-talkie feature. This brisk crime saga tells "a story that might have been torn out of last night's newspaper," an approach that would shortly become the studio's signature style. Small-town yokels Eddie (Cullen Landis) and Gene (Eugene Pallette) get suckered by a pair of bootleggers into buying a Manhattan barbershop that is really a speakeasy. While Eddie reconnects with his hometown honey-turned-chorus girl Kitty (Helene Costello), the boys get framed by a gangster who has the hots for Kitty. Despite its basic plot, this technological breakthrough went on to become a box-office smash, hastening the demise of silent cinema.

• UPC: 888574651688
• Release: 2018-04-17
• Content Provider: Warner
• Runtime: 57:00
• Genre: Drama, Crime
• Language: English
• Format: DVD-NTSC
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• Aspect: 4 X 3 FULL FRAME, ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO - 1.37:1
• Rating: NR
• Audio: MONO - English
• Color/BW: BLACK & WHITE
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• Number of Discs: 1
• Disc Format: DVD