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BROADWAY
U.S., 1929
Directed by Paul Fejos
Starring Glenn Tryon, Evelyn Brent, Merna Kennedy
Art Direction by Charles D. Hall, Thomas E. O’Neill
Approx. 105 min. DCP.
A hopeful young vaudeville duo get caught up with gangsters, murder, and bootlegging against the backdrop of the most impossibly decadent night club ever constructed. 21-year-old producer Carl Laemmle, Jr. spent an astronomical $1 million on this “super-production” with things like a miniature Times Square built to precise detail (used for only one scene), a 40-foot camera crane on wheels, and a sequence in two-color Technicolor.
Reviews
“The camera sails through space with a speed and agility that suggests the most advanced digital effects of today, rocketing from eye level to a point of view three or four stories above the action.”
– Dave Kehr
“One of the most unbelievably lavish Art Deco sets ever built.”
– Screen Deco