Tue 19 Apr 2011
A Movie Review by Walter Albert: ACQUITTED (1929).
Posted by Steve under Films: Drama/Romance , Reviews[4] Comments
ACQUITTED. Columbia, 1929. Lloyd Hughes, Margaret Livingston, Sam Hardy, Charles West, George Regas, Charles Wilson, Otto Hoffman. Director: Frank Stayer. Shown at Cinecon 44, Hollywood CA, Aug-Sept 2008.
Lloyd Hughes, a doctor who’s been convicted of murdering a patient, treats Margaret Livingston, another inmate (who knows the difference between good and bad but doesn’t always pay attention to it), and falls in love with her.
When she’s released, she persuades her former lover (Sam Hardy), the man who set her up to teach her a lesson and framed the doctor, to have the doctor released.
This doesn’t classify as a quality dramatic production (Harry Cohn, King of the B’s, produced it), but its nicely paced 63 minute running time is just right for the working-out of this sentimental drama. Hardy is a good-bad guy, and it’s his strong performance that remained in my mind when I wrote this review, a month later.
April 20th, 2011 at 4:51 am
Thank you for an enjoyable review!
I have never heard of this film, or seen anything by its director Frank R. Strayer. He’s best known for the B-movie comedy series BLONDIE.
But his gangster movie silent comedy spoof PARTNERS IN CRIME (1928) sounds fun.
So do such talkie B-Movie mysteries as MURDER AT MIDNIGHT and I RING DOORBELLS.
Lloyd Hughes was a silent era leading man, who worked till he dropped. Mainly, he was a very handsome man. He was in the original THE LOST WORLD, complete with giant dinosaurs wrecking London – long before Godzilla.
April 20th, 2011 at 1:36 pm
I didn’t recognize a single name in the credits!
April 21st, 2011 at 5:19 am
You can see photos of Lloyd Hughes with Colleen Moore at:
http://i316.photobucket.com/albums/mm358/gagman66/ColleenMoore-LloydHughes-Squeeze.jpg
and with Mae Murray:
http://i316.photobucket.com/albums/mm358/gagman66/MaeMurrayAndLloydHughesInValanci-1.jpg
and in suit and tie:
http://www.silentsaregolden.com/photos/lloydhughes2.jpg
April 21st, 2011 at 9:47 am
Thanks, Mike. Very nice photos. That last one looks like one I’ll add to the original post, as soon as I can get to it.