''Evidence'' is a 1929
Pre-Code
Pre-Code Hollywood was the brief era in the American film industry between the widespread adoption of sound in film in 1929LaSalle (2002), p. 1. and the enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code censorship guidelines, popularly known ...
crime
In ordinary language, a crime is an unlawful act punishable by a state or other authority. The term ''crime'' does not, in modern criminal law, have any simple and universally accepted definition,Farmer, Lindsay: "Crime, definitions of", in Ca ...
drama
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film produced and distributed by the
Warner Brothers
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (commonly known as Warner Bros. or abbreviated as WB) is an American film and entertainment studio headquartered at the Warner Bros. Studios complex in Burbank, California, and a subsidiary of Warner Bros. D ...
. It is based on the 1914 Broadway play ''Evidence'' by J. duRocher MacPherson and L. duRocher MacPherson. This early talkie was directed by
John G. Adolfi and starred
Pauline Frederick
Pauline Frederick (born Pauline Beatrice Libbey, August 12, 1883 – September 19, 1938) was an American stage and film actress.
Early life
Frederick was born Pauline Beatrice Libbey (later changed to Libby) in Boston in 1883 (some sources stat ...
and
Lowell Sherman
Lowell J. Sherman (October 11, 1888 – December 28, 1934) was an American actor and film director. In an unusual practice for the time, he served as both actor and director on several films in the early 1930s. He later turned exclusively to d ...
. While this film is
lost
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, its soundtrack, recorded by the
Vitaphone
Vitaphone was a sound film system used for feature films and nearly 1,000 short subjects made by Warner Bros. and its sister studio First National from 1926 to 1931. Vitaphone was the last major analog sound-on-disc system and the only one ...
process, survives.
''Evidence'' at Arne Andersen's Lost Film Files: ''Warner Brothers Films'' 1928
Cast
*Pauline Frederick
Pauline Frederick (born Pauline Beatrice Libbey, August 12, 1883 – September 19, 1938) was an American stage and film actress.
Early life
Frederick was born Pauline Beatrice Libbey (later changed to Libby) in Boston in 1883 (some sources stat ...
- Myra Stanhope
*William Courtenay
William Courtenay ( 134231 July 1396) was Archbishop of Canterbury (1381–1396), having previously been Bishop of Hereford and Bishop of London.
Early life and education
Courtenay was a younger son of Hugh de Courtenay, 10th Earl of Devon ( ...
- Cyril Wimborne
*Conway Tearle
Conway Tearle (born Frederick Conway Levy, May 17, 1878 – October 1, 1938) was an American stage actor who went on to perform in silent and early sound films.
Early life
Tearle was born on May 17, 1878, in New York City, the son of the ...
- Harold Courtenay
*Lowell Sherman
Lowell J. Sherman (October 11, 1888 – December 28, 1934) was an American actor and film director. In an unusual practice for the time, he served as both actor and director on several films in the early 1930s. He later turned exclusively to d ...
- Norman Pollock
* Alec B. Francis - Harbison
*Freddie Burke Frederick
Freddie Burke Frederick (January 13, 1921 in San Francisco – January 31, 1986 in Glendale, California) was an American child actor. He played Jackie Howell in the 1930 Paramount Pictures film '' Ladies Love Brutes''.
Filmography
* '' Fangs of ...
- Kenyon Wimborne
*Madeline Seymour - Mrs. Debenham
*Ivan F. Simpson - Peabody
*Myrna Loy
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- Native Girl
*Lionel Belmore
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Life and career
Onstage, Belmore appeared with Wilson Barrett, Sir Henry Irving, William Faversham, ...
- Innkeeper
See also
* List of early sound feature films (1926–1929)
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References
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1929 films
American black-and-white films
American films based on plays
Films directed by John G. Adolfi
Lost American crime drama films
Warner Bros. films
1929 crime drama films
1929 lost films
English-language crime drama films
1920s English-language films
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