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Lonesome is a 1928 American sound part-talkie comedy drama film directed by Paul Fejös, and starring Barbara Kent and Glenn Tryon. Although containing a few sequences with audible dialog, the majority of the film had a synchronized musical score with sound effects with English intertitles.
Lonesome: Directed by Pál Fejös. With Barbara Kent, Glenn Tryon, Fay Holderness, Gusztáv Pártos. Two lonely people in the big city meet and enjoy the thrills of an amusement park, only to lose each other in the crowd after spending a great day together.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Pál Fejös
- 1928-11-22
Parts of this film provide a nice vignette of working class daily life in 1928 New York. Segments @ 00:29:45 - Talkies begin (interspersed with silent sequences) @ 00:37:30 - Color begins (interspersed with black and white sequences) @ 00:49:15 - Partial POV roller-coaster sequence @ 00:51:54 - Interesting close-up of Mary fainting
A buried treasure from Hollywood’s golden age, Lonesome is the creation of a little-known but audacious and one-of-a-kind filmmaker, Paul Fejos (also an explorer, anthropologist, and doctor!).
- Mary
This is a fully high definition copy of Paul Fejos' drama, starring Barbara Kent and Glenn Tyron. I do not own the rights to film, nor am I profiting from it...
- 69 min
- 1823
- André Bourbeau
Aug 28, 2012 · P aul Fejos’s Lonesome is one of those no-longer-forgotten treasures that cinephiles in the know cherish. A frequent retrospective highlight at film festivals, lovingly restored, it has a fresh, dashing charm and brio that repay numerous visits.
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Aug 31, 2012 · Lonesome was the Hungarian-born Fejos’s second American feature, following the independently produced The Last Moment (1927)—now, unfortunately, a “lost” film—and it is generally regarded as his finest achievement (though rediscovery of the earlier film would certainly be a major contribution to film history), a technical and ...
