Movies and TvShows featuring "talkie" theme.
Unaccustomed as We Are is a comedy short film from 1929 that follows the comedic duo Laurel and Hardy as they experience a series of misadventures after a surprise visitor shows up for dinner. Hilarity ensues with plenty of bickering, misunderstandings, and comedic errors. This pre-code film is filled with slapstick comedy, funny dialogue, and classic Laurel and Hardy moments.
In 17th-century France, a catholic priest swears loyalty to the rightful king and gets embroiled in a dangerous game of deception and betrayal. The priest's identical twin brother, imprisoned as the Man in the Iron Mask, is the key to uncovering an evil plot orchestrated by the usurper king. A thrilling tale of swashbuckling sword fights, romance, and a quest for justice unfolds in this big-budget action-packed movie.
Llorona is a figure unique to Mexican folklore -- the wailing spirit of a woman who lost or killed her child and now returns to seek revenge and haunt the living. With its framing story and flashback structure, this film sets forth a couple of variations of the story.
The Hollywood Revue of 1929 is a comedy-musical film that features an ensemble cast in a variety show format. With an all-star lineup, the film includes comedy sketches, singing and dancing performances, and even a spoof of Romeo and Juliet. It is a colorful showcase of the entertainment industry in the 1920s, with comedic moments and musical numbers throughout the movie.
Germany in the Thirties. A movie teller realizes that his profession is not longer needed. Silent movies are not produced any longer. Telling stories is the only thing the man was ever good in, so he does not know what to do now. As political circumstances are changing dramatically these days in Germany, he gets new hope that things will again be going better for him...
Animated figure Talkie gets a visit from his friend Mutie in search for a job. Talkie takes him to the Western Electric sound lab...
Dr. Benchley is addressing the Ladies Club on the subject of the reproductive habits of the polyp, a small aquatic organism. Although he is not able to display his live specimens, he has prepared a series of pictures of his subjects. He explains that the subject is made more complicated by the fact that polyps are able to change their sex from time to time. Then he presents some of the pictures of his specimens and the experiments that he has done with them.
Not So Dumb is a screwball comedy that follows the hilarious misadventures of a ditzy blonde as she gets caught up in a series of mistaken identities, business mergers, and romantic entanglements. With rainstorms, golf players, and costume jewelry, this rom-com is sure to keep you entertained.
Vitaphone production reels #2471-2478; third Warner Bros. feature film - the first being The Jazz Singer and the second Tenderloin - to include talking sequences, along with the by now usual Vitaphone musical score and sound effects. A copy of this film survives at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., but the sound disks are lost.
Actors, crew and executives who worked at Warner Bros. Pictures recall their days at the studio.
Saxophone player Clyde meets a woman named Flowers, and teaches her to dance. He later discovers that gangster boss "Blackjack" is also in love with her. "Blackjack" is also battling gang boss Mike Luego in a violent turf war.
An aspiring singer tries to break into films during the early talkie era. She is hired to dub the singing and speaking voice of a silent-movie favorite. Sworn to secrecy, the fill-in must stand by in silence as the star receives all the praises and plaudits.
A barber turns down a promising business venture in order to take his sick son to a drier climate out west.
The bride Claudia spends his first marriage night with the sponsor of her wedding, because in the intoxication of the celebration were confused. The husband comes the next morning, but the sponsor does not give way. Discussed and then put the first deadly traps to the second, in which error always falls the same.
An examination of "The Public Enemy" (1931) by film historians and critics.
Paramount's first all-talking picture, Interference was dismally directed by Roy Pomeroy, whose lofty status as the studio's "technical wizard" did not necessarily qualify him to be a director. Evelyn Brent heads the cast as scheming Deborah Kane, who sets out to blackmail Faith Marley (Doris Kenyon), the above-reproach wife of Sir John Marlay.
In the Parque del Retiro, in Madrid, Spanish writer Ramón Gómez de la Serna weaves a humorous and absurd monologue about a monocle without glass, the noises that can be heard in a chicken coop and the importance of gesturing correctly with a large hand if someone wants to succeed in the art of oratory.
SAL OF SINGAPORE was nominated for an Oscar for achievement in Writing during the second year of the Academy Awards. The film, being a part-talkie, nearly disappared from view. However, a preservation print does exist at UCLA, although it is unavailable for public viewing, awaiting restoration.
Victor Derval is returning home after a performance when he is hailed by Lisa, a young Hungarian woman. Her motives are mysterious; is she simply a star-struck peasant girl, or an ambitious, manipulative aspiring star?
Val and Ernie Stanton make their second appearance in a Vitaphone short. This time out the two basically stand in the same spot as they re-create their vaudeville act, which includes a few songs as well as a couple comedy routines.