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Cinema Fearité Presents ‘The Drums of Jeopardy’ – A Talkie Remake Of A Silent Adaptation Of A Broadway Play That Was Based On A Serialized Novel

August 13, 2015 by James Jay Edwards

The introduction of sound in motion pictures was a fairly gradual thing; it’s not like every movie suddenly had synchronized sound one weekend, the slow transformation occurred over several years in the late twenties and early thirties.  Over that time, many studios double-dipped, remaking silent movies with sound and releasing them as a whole new […]

Filed Under: Cinema Fearité Tagged With: Arthur Reed, Boris Karlov, Clara Blandick, Ernest Hilliard, Florence Lake, Florence Ryerson, George B. Seitz, George Fawcett, Hale Hamilton, Harold McGrath, June Collyer, Lloyd Hughes, sound, talkie, The Drums of Jeopardy, Wallace MacDonald, Warner Oland

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