Lights of New York (1928 film)

Lights of New York is a 1928 American crime drama film starring Helene Costello, Cullen Landis and Eugene Pallette, and directed by Bryan Foy. Filmed in the Vitaphone soundondisc sound system, it is the first alltalking fulllength feature film, released by Warner Bros., who had introduced the first featurelength parttalkie The Jazz Singer in the previous year. The film, which cost 23,000 to produce B picture, grossed over 1,000,000. The enthusiasm with which audiences greeted the talkies was so great that by the end of 1929, Hollywood was producing sound films exclusively.

With a promise from Jackson and Dickson that they will help the young men establish a barbershop in the city, Eddie asks his mother, Mrs. Morgan Mary Carr, who owns the towns Morgan Hotel, to loan them 5,000 of her savings. Eddie and Gene set up the barbershop in New York but soon learn that it is merely a front for a speakeasy.Frustrated and yearning for a return to the quiet life, Gene and Eddie vow to go home as soon as they earn enough to pay back Mrs. Morgan. Eddie is in love with Kitty Lewis topbilled Helene Costello, his hometown sweetheart, who preceded him to New York. Now she is a performer at The Night Hawk, a nightclub owned by Hawk Miller Wheeler Oakman, notorious bootlegger who controls the speakeasy behind the barbershop. Although Hawks longtime mistress, Molly Thompson Gladys Brockwell, warns him not to pursue Kitty, he coldly dismisses her, saying that their relationship is over. ........

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