31 December 1929 Drama, Comedy 50 mins
Sweat (1929) is a slapstick riff on tendency-film themes, as a bored young millionaire has his clothes stolen by a tramp; dressed in the tramp’s clothes, he has to accept work as a labourer. As the hero ends up building the mausoleum he had himself commissioned.
Watch the official Sweat 1929 trailer in HD below.
Koji Shima as Heizaemon Kitayama
Yasushi Yoshii as Genbei
Kôju Murata as Senta
Kunio Tamura as Chorotake
Etsuji Oki as Kinzo
Hisako Takihana as Oshizu
Mitsu Kanbe as Worker
Tomu Uchida Director
Enjiro Ikeda Set Decoration
Masashi Kobayashi Original Story
Masashi Kobayashi Screenplay
Matao Matsuzawa Director of Photography
Han Trailer
Hàn Trailer
Japan 31 December 1929
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Sweatshops generally refers to a workplace where relatively unskilled employees work long hours for substandard pay in unhealthy and unsafe conditions.
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1929:
15 January 1929
A vaudeville act. Trixie Friganza performs first a story and then a song. For the story, she wears a wide-brimmed had and a matching diaphanous shawl.
30 March 1929
A Southern Belle must work in a gambling house to pay off her father's debts, which drove him to suicide.
05 April 1929
This is a really strange, but thought provoking film. Here, beloved Mary literally lets Harry Spear kick her behind, spend her money on him, and forces her to push his kiddie car, all so that she could get the occasional joy of watching Harry "Wiggle His Ears.
24 November 1929
William Henry Skinner's young wife has great confidence in her husband's abilities and is ambitious for his success.
09 February 1929
Joe Cobb is suffering through a toothache as well as having to babysit his little brother Rupert who won't stop crying.
24 August 1929
Joe Collins arrives at Hanford College to begin his second year with $200 to pay his tuition, is enticed into a craps game, and loses all in this nostalgic slice of college, replete with songs, romance, prom dances and the inevitable big football game.
01 January 1929
Juan is summoned by Goldenberg to offer him a job in the cheap business. To get away from him, Pardo evades his proposals justifying himself by saying that he must consult with his partner; who, in reality, does not exist.
18 February 1929
Silent military propaganda film by Erkki Karu, later followed by the musical revue film Meidän poikamme merellä ("Our Boys at Sea", 1933) and Meidän poikamme ilmassa – me maassa ("Our Boys in the Air – and We on Land", 1934), both of them also directed by Karu.
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