22 December 1928 Comedy, Romance 70 mins
String Whalen, a carnival wheel-of-fortune operator, is greatly attracted to Lutie and gains her gratitude when he recovers her purse from a pickpocket. At a dance that evening, String promises Lutie to forsake his gambling career.
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Hugh Trevor as String
Gertrude Olmstead as Lutie
Ethlyne Clair as Zelda
Bert Moorhouse as Moffatt
Walter McGrail as Duke
James Eagles as Andy
George B. Seitz Director
Robert Martin Director of Photography
Ann McKnight Editor
Walter Plunkett Costume Design
Thomas Atkins Assistant Director
Wyndham Gittens Screenplay
United States 22 December 1928
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1928:
14 January 1928
A press sheet printed in Exhibitors Herald and Moving Picture World in 1928 put forth the suggestion that “people in the need of a good hearty laugh should take this opportunity of getting it” by seeing a newly released comedy by Warner Bros.
01 April 1928
Mickey McGuire is putting on a bad performance of Uncle Tom's Cabin, but first he has to deal with the competition; another boy is putting on a wild animal show -- house cats inflamed by the "tamer" having white mice in his trousers.
04 June 1928
An Arab prince born and raised in the desert and a beautiful Frenchwoman from Paris fall in love and marry, but the tremendous differences in their backgrounds and the cultural differences between their two different societies put strains on their marriage that may well prove irreparable.
01 May 1928
A young cleaning woman in a boarding-house relieves the drudgery of her job by daydreaming that a foreign student at the house, who she believes is interested in her, is actually a wealthy nobleman who sweeps her off on a romantic journey.
25 March 1928
John Stoval, a guard in a New York subway, thinks that Philip Hurd, who owns a concession at Coney Island, would make a good husband for his daughter Sophie.
27 August 1928
A brilliant detective is trying to break up a notorious crime ring, using part of an intercepted message.
02 March 1928
Blinded in a train accident James Driscoll (Holmes Herbert), whose wife, Miriam Driscoll (Belle Bennett), has been having an affair with his young male secretary Phillip Kingston )Carroll Nye), regains his eyesight.
10 March 1928
Elam "Burning Daylight" Harnish is a prospector who makes a million dollars in the Dawson, Alaska gold rush and loses the million dollars in Dawson.
18 November 1928
Bill is a young man who arrives at the Naval Academy in Annapolis. He is an incorrigible know-all, and emerges a sober man.
19 December 1928
Herbert Pomeroy's wife Juanita spends his money extravagantly and irresponsibly, finally driving him to bankruptcy.
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