Bright lights : Reckless hour
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Bright lights: A dancer faces murder charges and must confront her past. | Reckless hour: A shop model's actions dim her hopes for a future with a wealthy young man.
Credits
- Cast
- Bright lights: Dorothy Mackaill, Frank Fay, Noah Beery, Daphne Pollard, James Murray, Tom Dugan, Inez Courtenay, Frank McHugh, Edmund Breese, Eddie Nugent, Philip Strange. | Cast: Reckless hour: Dorothy Mackaill, H.B. Warner, Conrad Nagel, Joan Blondell, Walter Byron, Joe Donahue, Dorothy Peterson, Helen Ware, William House, Claude King; First National Pictures (inc); Vitaphone Corp; Turner Entertainment Co; Warner Home Video (Firm); Michael Curtiz; Pearson (humphrey); McCarthy, Henry, -1954; Dorothy Mackaill; Frank Fay; Noah Beery; Daphne Pollard; James Murray; Tom Dugan; Courtenay (inez); Frank McHugh; Breese (edmund); Edward Nugent; Strange (philip); John Francis Dillon; Ryerson (florence); Warner, H. B. (Henry Byron); Conrad Nagel; Blondell (joan); Walter Byron; Donahue (joe); Dorothy Peterson; Helen Ware; Billy House; Claude King; Arthur Richman
Complete catalog record
Alternate title: At head of title on disc surface: Pre-code double feature | Bright lights, aka, Adventures in Africa. | Adventures in Africa. | Reckless hour.
Original source: "Featuring: Bright lights (aka Adventures in Africa); The reckless hour"--Container. | Title from container. | Bright lights: originally produced as a motion picture in 1930. | Reckless hour: originally produced as a motion picture in 1931. | "Although originally filmed in 2-strip technicolor, the only surviving elements for Bright lights are from its B & W [black and white] fine grain master, uniquely retitled Adventures in Africa for early TV distribution. The reckless hour is presented from its best surviving 16mm source. No 35mm is known to survive"--Container. | "This disc is expected to play back in DVD video "play only" devices, and may not play back in other DVD devices, including recorders and PC drives"--Container.
Release: [Burbank, Calif.] : Turner Entertainment Co. : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2012]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (132 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. | monochrome
Contents: Contents: [Bright lights, aka] Adventures in Africa / First National Pictures present ; by Humphrey Pearson ; directed by Michael Curtiz ; a First National and Vitaphone picture ; screen version and dialogue by Humphrey Pearson and Henry McCarty (69 min.) -- The reckless hour / First National Pictures present ; based on the play Ambush by Arthur Richman ; a John Francis Dillon production ; adaptation by Florence Ryerson (71 min.).
Subjects: Man-woman relationships -- Drama | Man-woman relationships
Related works: Richman, Arthur, 1886-1944. Ambush.
Original source: "Featuring: Bright lights (aka Adventures in Africa); The reckless hour"--Container. | Title from container. | Bright lights: originally produced as a motion picture in 1930. | Reckless hour: originally produced as a motion picture in 1931. | "Although originally filmed in 2-strip technicolor, the only surviving elements for Bright lights are from its B & W [black and white] fine grain master, uniquely retitled Adventures in Africa for early TV distribution. The reckless hour is presented from its best surviving 16mm source. No 35mm is known to survive"--Container. | "This disc is expected to play back in DVD video "play only" devices, and may not play back in other DVD devices, including recorders and PC drives"--Container.
Release: [Burbank, Calif.] : Turner Entertainment Co. : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2012]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (132 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. | monochrome
Contents: Contents: [Bright lights, aka] Adventures in Africa / First National Pictures present ; by Humphrey Pearson ; directed by Michael Curtiz ; a First National and Vitaphone picture ; screen version and dialogue by Humphrey Pearson and Henry McCarty (69 min.) -- The reckless hour / First National Pictures present ; based on the play Ambush by Arthur Richman ; a John Francis Dillon production ; adaptation by Florence Ryerson (71 min.).
Subjects: Man-woman relationships -- Drama | Man-woman relationships
Related works: Richman, Arthur, 1886-1944. Ambush.
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Sources
- UCLA Library Catalog · record ↗ — title, creator, length, format, color, sound, genre, description, credits, catalog record
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