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Sono Art-World Wide Pictures
Company type	Film production
Industry	Entertainment
Founded	1927; 97 years ago
Founder	W. Ray Johnston
Defunct	1933; 91 years ago
Fate	Merged with Allied Pictures
Successor	Monogram Pictures

Sono Art-World Wide Pictures was an American film distribution and production company in operation from 1927 to 1933.^[1] Their first feature film was The Rainbow Man (1929), while one of their most prominent was The Great Gabbo (1929) starring Erich von Stroheim and directed by James Cruze for James Cruze Productions, Inc.^[2] One of the last films distributed by the company was A Study in Scarlet (1933) starring Reginald Owen as Sherlock Holmes.

*The Death Kiss* (1932) produced by Tiffany Pictures and released by Sono Art-World Wide Pictures with Sono Art logo in lower right corner of poster

Sono Art was the original U.S. distributor for four Alfred Hitchcock-directed films, Downhill (1927), Easy Virtue (1928), The Manxman (1929), and Blackmail (1929), as well as the British Anna May Wong vehicle Piccadilly (1929).

Merger

In 1933, Sono-Art merged with Rayart Pictures to form Monogram Pictures. The original Monogram merged into Republic Pictures in 1935; all Sono Art-World Wide and original Monogram productions have fallen into the public domain.

Filmography

The Talk of Hollywood (1929)
The Great Gabbo (1929)
Blaze o' Glory (1929)
The Rainbow Man (1929)
Midnight Daddies (1929)
Hello Sister (1930)
What a Man (1930)
Cock o' the Walk (1930)
The Big Fight (1930)
The Dude Wrangler (1930)
Rogue of the Rio Grande (1930)
Once a Gentleman (1930)
Reno (1930)
The Costello Case (1930)
Damaged Love (1931)
Swanee River (1931)
Mounted Fury (1931)
Murder at Midnight (1931)
Air Police (1931)
In Old Cheyenne (1931)
First Aid (1931)
Hell-Bent for Frisco (1931)
Is There Justice? (1931)
Neck and Neck (1931)
Law of the West (1932)
The Last Mile (1932)
Texas Buddies (1932)
Riders of the Desert (1932)
Between Fighting Men (1932)
Come On, Tarzan (1932)
Those We Love (1932)
The Crooked Circle (1932)
Son of Oklahoma (1932)
The Man from Hell's Edges (1932)
Sunset Trail (1932)
False Faces (1932)
Breach of Promise (1932)
Trailing the Killer (1932)
South of Santa Fe (1932)
Dynamite Ranch (1932)
Tombstone Canyon (1932)
The Man Called Back (1932)
Those We Love (1932)
The Death Kiss (1932)
Uptown New York (1932)
Cannonball Express (1932)
Devil on Deck (1932)
Hypnotized (1932)
Racetrack (1933)
Fargo Express (1933)
Phantom Thunderbolt (1933)
The Lone Avenger (1933)
The Constant Woman (1933)
Drum Taps (1933)
A Study in Scarlet (1933)

References

^ Slide, Anthony (25 February 2014). The New Historical Dictionary of the American Film Industry. Taylor & Francis. p. 384. ISBN 978-1-135-92561-1.
^ Pitts, Michael R. (25 July 2005). Poverty Row Studios, 1929–1940. McFarland. pp. 339–358. ISBN 978-1-4766-1036-8.

External links

Sono Art-World Wide Pictures at IMDB

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[Slide2014-1] Slide, Anthony (25 February 2014). The New Historical Dictionary of the American Film Industry. Taylor & Francis. p. 384. ISBN 978-1-135-92561-1.

[Pitts2005-2] Pitts, Michael R. (25 July 2005). Poverty Row Studios, 1929–1940. McFarland. pp. 339–358. ISBN 978-1-4766-1036-8.

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