Lonesome

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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 ...
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Overview

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.
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Special Features

Disc One: Audio Commentary featuring film historian Richard Koszarski; Fejos Memorial, a 1963 visual essay produced by Paul Falkenberg in collaboration with Director Paul Fejo's wife, Lita Binns Fejos, featuring the filmmaker narrating the story of his life and career; ; Disc Two: The Last Performance, Fejos's 1929 silent starring Conrad Veidt, with a new score by Composer Donald Sosin; Reconstructed sound version of Broadway, Fejos's 1929 musical; Excerpt about the Broadway camera crane from an Audio Interview with Cinematographer Hal Mohr; ; Plus: a booklet featuring essays by critic Phillip Lopate and Film Historian Graham Petrie and an excerpt from a 1962 interview with Fejos
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All Movie Guide
This rarely screened silent-era gem is a classic boy-meets-girl story set in the hustle and bustle of New York City. Jim Tryon and Barbara Kent play Jim, a factory worker, and Mary, a telephone operator, who meet at an Independence Day carnival by the seashore. Director Paul Fejos crams each frame with energy and movement, employing all kinds of expressive camerawork and visual effects. In a montage depicting the hectic drudgery of Mary's working day, he superimposes a clock and several tiny faces chattering away as she frantically works the switchboard; and when the lovers finally find themselves alone on the beach at night, the film suddenly glows with hand-tinted color. Made at the dawn of the sound era (two sound scenes were added later to cash in on the new craze), Lonesome represents the height of silent film artistry. Besides being a charming tale with a neat twist at the end, it is also a visually dazzling cinematic essay on urban alienation and an intoxicating ode to love.
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Product Details

  • Release Date: 8/28/2012
  • UPC: 715515098014
  • Original Release: 1928

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  • Source: Criterion
  • Region Code: 1
  • Presentation: Subtitled / B&W / Pan & Scan
  • Time: 1:09:00
  • Format: DVD

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
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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Scene Index

Disc #1 -- Lonesome
1. Rise and Shine [9:10]
2. The Daily Grind [6:03]
3. Holiday Plans? [3:33]
4. Plent of Fun! [6:05]
5. Hurly-burly [3:32]
6. Sun 'n' Sand [5:48]
7. Lost Ring [3:22]
8. Jim's Promise [2:15]
9. Come One, Come All [7:00]
10. Their Song [1:36]
11. Trouble on the Jack Rabbit Racer [4:18]
12. The Station House [2:25]
13. Faces in the Crowd [5:42]
14. Thunder and Lightning [2:43]
15. "Always" [6:23]
1. "The Machinery of Life" [9:10]
2. Impressionism [6:03]
3. The Crowd [3:33]
4. The New International Art Cinema [6:05]
5. "Coney Island of the Mind" [3:32]
6. Dialogue Sequences [5:48]
7. Mary [3:22]
8. Love to Hate [2:15]
9. Junior Laemmle [7:00]
10. "Always" [1:36]
11. Thrill Ride [4:18]
12. Hollywood [2:25]
13. Career at Universal [5:42]
14. "Sell the Sizzle" [2:43]
15. Ernö Rapée [6:23]
Disc #2 -- Lonesome
1. Erik the Great [10:09]
2. Unexpected Guest [11:06]
3. Jealousy [7:17]
4. Surprise Party [10:16]
5. Swordplay [8:18]
6. "That's All, Ladies and Gentlemen!" [12:18]
1. Paradise Club [10:10]
2. Billie [4:42]
3. Showdown with Scar [5:23]
4. Showtime! [5:38]
5. Names in Lights [4:13]
6. Moving Uptown [6:20]
7. Billie's New Rock [4:47]
8. Hitched Up? [5:32]
9. A Big Favor [8:44]
10. Square Shooters [5:17]
11. Alibi [9:40]
12. Busted [6:13]
13. Extra Bad [5:48]
14. Roy's Big Chance [3:24]
15. Crandall Comes Clean [3:40]
16. Love Songs and Revenge [7:19]
17. Big Finish [7:26]
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Menu

Disc #1 -- Lonesome
   Play the Movie
   Chapters
      Color Bars
   Commentary
      Commentary: On/Off
         Commentary: On
         Commentary: Off
      Index
         Color Bars
   Fejos Memorial
      Play
Disc #2 -- Lonesome
   The Last Performance
      Play
      Index
         Color Bars
   Broadway
      Play
      Index
      Hal Mohr on "Broadway"
         Play
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