Lights Of New York

There's nothing special about this routine crime yarn; in fact it's so crudely made that one wonders at the professional talent behind the film, or the lack of it. The film does have one historic distinction; it was the first all-talking motion picture and it was a great sensation, costing only $75,000 to make and returning to Warner Bros. a whopping $2 million. Landis and Pallette move to Manhattan and open a barbershop, which they discover is being used as a front for a large bootlegging operation. Nightclub owner and racket boss Oakman is later killed, and Landis is framed for the murder, a gun belonging to Costello, who works in Oakman's club as a singer, being...