The Secret Hour (film)
1928 film
- February 4, 1928 (1928-02-04)
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Sound Version (Synchronized)
English Intertitles
The Secret Hour is a lost[1] 1928 silent film romance drama directed by Rowland V. Lee and starring Pola Negri. A sound version was released during the latter half of 1928. While the sound version of the film had no audible dialog, it featured a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process. It is based on the 1924 Broadway play, They Knew What They Wanted by Sidney Howard.[2] It was produced by Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation and distributed through Paramount Pictures.[3][4]
In 1956, the film entered the public domain in the United States because the claimants did not renew its copyright registration in the 28th year after publication.[5]
Cast
- Pola Negri - Amy
- Jean Hersholt - Tony
- Kenneth Thomson - Joe
- Christian J. Frank - Sam
- George Kuwa - Ah Gee
- George Periolat - Doctor
Music
The sound version of the film featured a theme song entitled "The Beggar" with music by Ted Snyder and words by Francis Wheeler and Irving Kahal.
See also
- A Lady to Love (1930)
- They Knew What They Wanted (1940)
References
- ^ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:The Secret Hour
- ^ They Knew What They Wanted on Broadway, November 1924-October 1925
- ^ The Secret Hour at silentera.com
- ^ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films:The Secret Hour
- ^ Pierce, David (March 29, 2001). Legal Limbo: How American Copyright Law Makes Orphan Films (mp3 in "file3"). Orphans of the Storm II: Documenting the 20th Century. pp. 131–134. Retrieved January 5, 2012.
External links
- The Secret Hour at IMDb
- synopsis at AllMovie
- lobby posters and window cards
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Films directed by Rowland V. Lee
- A Thousand to One (1920)
- Blind Hearts (1921)
- The Sea Lion (1921)
- Cupid's Brand (1921)
- The Cup of Life (1921)
- The Men of Zanzibar (1922)
- His Back Against the Wall (1922)
- Mixed Faces (1922)
- Shirley of the Circus (1922)
- Alice Adams (1923)
- Gentle Julia (1923)
- Desire (1923)
- You Can't Get Away with It (1923)
- In Love with Love (1924)
- The Man Without a Country (1925)
- Havoc (1925)
- The Outsider (1926)
- The Silver Treasure (1926)
- Barbed Wire (1927)
- The Whirlwind of Youth (1927)
- The Secret Hour (1928)
- Doomsday (1928)
- Three Sinners (1928)
- Loves of an Actress (1928)
- The First Kiss (1928)
- The Wolf of Wall Street (1929)
- A Dangerous Woman (1929)
- Ladies Love Brutes (1930)
- The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu (1930)
- Derelict (1930)
- A Man from Wyoming (1930)
- Paramount on Parade (1930)
- The Ruling Voice (1931)
- The Guilty Generation (1931)
- That Night in London (1932)
- Zoo in Budapest (1933)
- I Am Suzanne (1933)
- The Count of Monte Cristo (1934)
- Gambling (1934)
- Cardinal Richelieu (1935)
- The Three Musketeers (1935)
- One Rainy Afternoon (1936)
- Love from a Stranger (1937)
- The Toast of New York (1937)
- Service de Luxe (1938)
- Mother Carey's Chickens (1938)
- Son of Frankenstein (1939)
- Tower of London (1939)
- The Sun Never Sets (1939)
- The Son of Monte Cristo (1940)
- Powder Town (1942)
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1944)
- Captain Kidd (1945)
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