Old San Francisco

Old San Francisco is a 1927 American silent historical drama film starring Dolores Costello and Warner Oland, and directed by Alan Crosland. The film was produced and distributed by Warner Bros.

The film was released in a silent version and in a Vitaphone version, with soundondisc recording of music and sound effects only. It was the fifth Warner Brothers feature film to have Vitaphone musical accompaniment. Just one month later, on October 6, Warner Bros. released The Jazz Singer with music, sound effects, and spoken dialogue. Warner Bros. later reused some of the footage from Old San Francisco for the 1906 San Francisco earthquake sequence in The Sisters 1938. This is Charles Emmett Macks final film appearance he was killed in an automobile accident six months prior to the films release.A print of the film still exists, as well as its Vitaphone soundtrack, and was released on manufacturedondemand DVD by the Warner Archive Collection series on September 15, 2009. ........

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