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Smart money / Warner Bros. Pictures and the Vitaphone Corp. present ; screen story & dialogue by Kubec Glasmon, John Bright, Lucien Hubbard, Joseph Jackson ; directed [and produced] by Alfred E. Green.
LIBRA DVD 006 236
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Jackson, Joseph. Idol, author.
- Series:
- Gangsters collection. Vol. 3.
- Gangsters collection. Vol. 3
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Gambling--Drama.
- Gambling.
- Brothers--Drama.
- Brothers.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Feature films.
- Crime films.
- Gangster films.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (81 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- monochrome
- Edition:
- Standard version.
- Place of Publication:
- [United States] : [Turner Entertainment Co.] ; Burbank, CA : distributed by Warner Home Video, [2008]
- Language Note:
- In English; optional subtitles in English or French.
- Open-captioned for the hearing impaired (SDH).
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, Region 1; Dolby Digital mono.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- Dolby
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- The only film to co-star Edward G. Robinson and James Cagney. Robinson has the larger part as a small-town barber who fancies himself a big-time gambler. He travels to the Big City in the company of his younger brother Cagney, who wants to make sure that Robinson isn't fleeced by the high-rollers. Unfortunately Robinson has a weakness for beautiful blondes, most of whom take him for all his money or betray him in some other manner. The cops aren't keen on Robinson's gambling activities, but they can pin nothing on him until he accidentally kills Cagney in a fight. The incident results in a jail term for manslaughter, and a more sober-sided outlook on life for the formerly flamboyant Robinson.
- Participant:
- Edward G. Robinson, James Cagney, Evelyn Knapp, Ralf Harolde, Noel Francis, Margaret Livingston, Maurice Black, Boris Karloff.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Robert Kwirle; editor, Jack Killifer; music, Leo F. Forbstein.
- Notes:
- Videodisc release of the motion picture produced in 1931.
- The website www.allmovie.com states that the film is based on a published short story The idol / by Joseph Jackson.
- Special features: commentary by film historians Alain Silver and James Ursini; Warner Night at the Movies 1931 Short Subjects Gallery: vintage newsreel; musical short: "George Jessel and His Russian Art Choir and The Smart Set-Up; classic cartoon "Big Man from the North"; trailers for "Smart money" and "Other Men's Women."
- "Presented in a format preserving the aspect ratio of its original theatrical exhibition."--Container.
- ISBN:
- 1419866613
- 9781419866616
- 1419863258
- OCLC:
- 230810183
- Publisher Number:
- 883929002726
- 085391188742 (set)
- 1000035746A Warner Home Video
- 3000014983 (set) Warner Home Video
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