Lights of New York (1928) on Netflix
Passed192857mCrimeDramaMusicRomance
Eddie Morgan and his friend Gene leave their upstate town for New York City with two bootleggers who promise them a barbershop. The shop is a front for Hawk Miller's speakeasy.
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Plot summary
Eddie Morgan and his friend Gene, a barber, live in an upstate town where Eddie's mother, Mrs. Morgan, runs the Morgan Hotel. Two bootleggers, Jake Jackson and Dan Dickson, have been lying low there and learn they can return to New York City; they urge the younger men to come along. Promised help opening a barbershop, Eddie borrows $5,000 of his mother's savings. In the city the shop proves a front for a speakeasy controlled by Hawk Miller, a bootlegger who also owns the Night Hawk club. Eddie's hometown sweetheart, Kitty Lewis, performs there. When Hawk's mistress Molly Thompson warns him away from Kitty, he tells her their relationship is over. A police officer is shot in a raid, and Hawk tells his men to find someone to take the blame.
Cast
- Jere Delaneyas Dan Dickson
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Lights of New York (1928)
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- Lights of New York was meant to be a two-reel film with a $12,000 budget, but with studio heads Harry and Jack Warner abroad for The Jazz Singer's European premiere, director Bryan Foy's crew expanded the plot as the seven-day shoot went on.
- Jack Warner ordered Bryan Foy to cut the film back to two reels after Foy shot four reels more than promised, but when an exhibitor friend offered $25,000 for it, Albert Warner's praise secured the film's release.
- The enthusiasm greeting the talkies was so great that by the end of 1929 Hollywood was producing sound films exclusively.
- Most current prints crop part of the main title: the title card was shot with a silent-film aperture, and when sound-on-film prints shrank the aperture to fit the soundtrack, the picture was cropped.
