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Speakeasy is a american film of genre Drama directed by Benjamin Stoloff released in USA on 8 march 1929 with Priscilla Lane

Speakeasy (1929)

Speakeasy
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Released in USA 8 march 1929
Length 1h2
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Action
Rating53% 2.697362.697362.697362.697362.69736

Speakeasy is a 1929 American Pre-Code sports drama film directed by Benjamin Stoloff and adapted by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan and Edwin J. Burke. The picture was produced and distributed by Fox Film Corporation. Lola Lane and Paul Page played the lead roles. John Wayne had a minor role in the film as a speakeasy patron. All film elements to this movie are considered lost, but Vitaphone-style discs of the soundtrack survive.

Synopsis

Speakeasy est un film sur le sport.

Actors

Priscilla Lane
Rosemary Lane

(Alice Woods)Warren Hymer

(Cannon Delmont)Lola Lane

(Alice Woods)Helen Ware

(Min)
And :
Henry B. Walthall
Stuart Erwin
Sharon Lynn
Erville Alderson
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