Show Folks

Show Folks
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Directed byPaul L. Stein
Written byJohn W. Krafft
Jack Jungmeyer
George Dromgold
Produced byRalph Block
StarringEddie Quillan
Lina Basquette
Carole Lombard
CinematographyDavid Abel
J. Peverell Marley
Edited byDoane Harrison
Music byJosiah Zuro
Production
company
Distributed byPathé Exchange
Release date
  • October 21, 1928 (1928-10-21)
Running time
70 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguagesSound (Part-Talkie)
(English Intertitles)

Show Folks is a 1928 American part-talkie sound drama film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Eddie Quillan, Lina Basquette, and Carole Lombard.[1] Although the film featured a few sequences with audible dialogue, the majority of the film had a synchronized musical score with sound effects. The film was released in both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film format.

Plot

Cast

Music

The film featured a theme song entitled "No One But Me (Only Me)" which was composed by Billy Stone, Al Koppell and Charles Weinberg. Also featured on the soundtrack was a song entitled "My Heart Keeps On Speaking Of Love" composed by Gus Kahn and Joe Cooper. An additional song heard on the soundtrack was entitled "Love's First Kiss" by Lew Porter and Sam A. Perry.

Preservation

This film survives at the French archive Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée in Fort de Bois-d'Arcy, Library of Congress, and UCLA Film and Television Archive.[2][3]

See also

References

  1. ^ Gehring p. 62
  2. ^ Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress, p. 165, c.1978 by The American Film Institute
  3. ^ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Show Folks

Bibliography

  • Wes D. Gehring. Carole Lombard, the Hoosier Tornado. Indiana Historical Society Press, 2003.


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