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The Redeeming Sin
(1929) United States of America
B&W : Eight reels / 6921 feet
Directed by (unknown)

Cast: Dolores Costello [Joan Billaire], Conrad Nagel [Doctor Raoul de Boise], Georgie Stone [a sewer rat], Philippe de Lacy [Petit], Lionel Belmore [Father Colomb], Warner Richmond [Lupine], Nina Quartero [Mitzi]

Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated, production; distributed by Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated. / Scenario by [?] Harvey Gates?, with dialogue by Joe Jackson, from the adaptation by Harvey Gates. Film editor, Tommy Pratt. Intertitles written by Joe Jackson. / © 4 February 1929 by Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated [LP81]. Premiered 15 February 1929 in New York, New York. Released 16 February 1929. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. Western Electric Vitaphone sound-on-disc synchronized sound system. / The film was also released in the USA in a silent version, (at 6145 feet), by Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated, in 1929. / Silent film, with talking sequences, synchronized music and sound effects.

Drama: Romance.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Synchronized sound film

Listing updated: 31 January 2025.

References: Best-Those p. 56 : Website-AFI.