Tenderloin (film)

Tenderloin 1928 is a Parttalkie Vitaphone crime film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Dolores Costello. While the film was a parttalkie, it was mostly silent with a synchronized musical score and sound effects. It was produced and released by Warner Bros. Tenderloin is considered a lost film, with no prints currently known to exist.

It was the second Vitaphone feature with talking sequences that Warner Bros. released, five months after The Jazz Singer. The film containedminutes of spoken dialog, and the Warner Bros. Studio promoted it as the first film in which actors actually spoke their roles. Reportedly, at the films premiere, the feature was met with derisive laughter as a result of the films stilted dialogue.

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