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Two lonely people discover short-lived happiness in this silent drama. Jim (Glenn Tryon) and Mary (Barbara Kent) live in the same rooming house in New York City, though they've never met; Jim works in a metal fabricating plant, and Mary runs a switchboard for the telephone company. While both have friends, they both long for something more in their lives. One afternoon, Jim decides to go to Coney Island to see the famous amusement park, and on the bus he spies Mary. Jim finds her attractive, and eventually works up the nerve to introduce himself on the beach. The two discover they share a mutual attraction, and over the course of the day Jim and Mary fall in love, while a visit to a fortune teller suggests to Mary that she's met the man who will become her husband. However, Jim and Mary are separated, and despite their best efforts the two don't know how to find one another again. Lonesome was released in 1929, as silent films were giving way to talking pictures; the picture was originally released silent, though it was soon reissued in a version with sound sequences.
Condition:NEW. Brand New Factory Sealed
Product Details
Actors: Barbara Kent, Glenn Tryon
Directors: Paul Fejos
Format: Black & White, Color, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Region: Region A/1 (Read more about DVD/Blu-ray formats.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Number of discs: 1
Rated: Unrated
Studio: Criterion Collection
DVD Release Date: August 28, 2012
Run Time: 69 minutes
Special Features
New digital restoration, featuring uncompressed monaural soundtrack
Audio commentary featuring film historian Richard Koszarski
The Last Performance, director Paul Fejos's 1929 silent starring Conrad Veidt
Reconstructed sound version of Broadway, Fejos's 1929 musical
Fejos Memorial, a 1963 visual essay produced by Paul Falkenberg
Audio excerpts about Broadway from an interview with cinematographer Hal Mohr
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by critic Phillip Lopate
Cast & Crew
Barbara Kent Mary
Fay Holderness Overdressed woman
Gus Partos Romantic Gentleman
Eddie Phillips The Sport
Andy Devine
Glenn Tryon Jim
Technical Credits
Paul Fejos Director
Frank Atkinson Editor
Carl Laemmle Jr. Producer
Edward T. Lowe Screenwriter
Mann Page Original Story
Tom Reed Screenwriter
Gilbert Warrenton Cinematographer
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