Old San Francisco

Old San Francisco
Directed by Alan Crosland
Written by Darryl F. Zanuck (story)
Anthony Coldeway (screenplay)
Jack Jarmuth (titles)
Starring Dolores Costello
Warner Oland
Charles Emmett Mack
Anna May Wong
Music by Hugo Riesenfeld
Cinematography Hal Mohr
Distributed by Warner Bros.
Release date(s) September 4, 1927
Running time 88 mins.
Country US
Language Silent film(English intertitles);
Vitaphone version

Old San Francisco (1927) is a silent movie which was released by Warner Brothers.

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Production background

The film was released in a silent version and in a Vitaphone version, with sound-on-disc recording of music and sound effects only. The film was released by Warner Brothers, directed by Alan Crosland, and starred Dolores Costello. It was the fifth Warner Brothers feature film to have Vitaphone musical accompaniment.

Just one month later, on October 6, Warner Brothers released The Jazz Singer with music, sound effects, and spoken dialogue. Warner Brothers later reused some of the footage from Old San Francisco for the 1906 San Francisco earthquake sequence in The Sisters (1938).[1]

Cast

cast in prologue

uncredited cast

Film Preservation

This movie survives, and was released on DVD in the Warner Bros. Archive Collection series on September 15, 2009.

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