Lonesome (1928)
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Two lonely people discover short-lived happiness in this silent drama. Jim (Glenn Tryon) and Mary (Barbara Kent) live in the same rooming house in New York City, though they've never met; Jim works in a metal fabricating plant, and Mary runs a switchboard for the telephone company. While both… More Two lonely people discover short-lived happiness in this silent drama. Jim (Glenn Tryon) and Mary (Barbara Kent) live in the same rooming house in New York City, though they've never met; Jim works in a metal fabricating plant, and Mary runs a switchboard for the telephone company. While both have friends, they both long for something more in their lives. One afternoon, Jim decides to go to Coney Island to see the famous amusement park, and on the bus he spies Mary. Jim finds her attractive, and eventually works up the nerve to introduce himself on the beach. The two discover they share a mutual attraction, and over the course of the day Jim and Mary fall in love, while a visit to a fortune teller suggests to Mary that she's met the man who will become her husband. However, Jim and Mary are separated, and despite their best efforts the two don't know how to find one another again. Lonesome was released in 1929, as silent films were giving way to talking pictures; the picture was originally released silent, though it was soon reissued in a version with sound sequences. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Directed By
- Pál Fejös, Paul Fejos
- Written By
- Edward T. Lowe Jr., Mann Page, Edward T. Lowe
- Genres
- Drama, Romance, Comedy
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Jun 20, 1928 Limited
- On DVD
- Aug 28, 2012
Critic Reviews
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Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Lonesome, Paul Fejos's exquisite, poetic 1928 masterpiece about love and estrangement in the big city, deserves to be ranked with The Crowd as well as Sunrise, though it's not nearly as well-known as either.
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Mordaunt Hall, New York Times
Dr Fejos has paid more attention to his interesting dissolves and double exposures than he has to the characterization of his story.
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Pat Kewley, PopMatters
Although to a large extent the two characters are basic archetypes, as a writer and director Fejös has a poet's touch when it comes to the details of phrase and gesture.
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, TV Guide's Movie Guide
This was Universal's first sound film with only three dialog scenes (all on the beach).
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Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
It's perhaps the ultimate film in urban alienation.
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Cast
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Barbara Kent
as Mary
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Fay Holderness
as Overdressed woman
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Gus Partos
as Romantic Gentleman
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Eddie Phillips
as The Sport
- Andy Devine
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Glenn Tryon
as Jim
- Gusztáv Pártos
