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7.4/10   122 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Courtney Ryley Cooper (story)
Bradley King (screen version)
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Release Date:
10 February 1929 (USA) more
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Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. more
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Interesting half-and-half more (7 total)

Cast

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Richard Barthelmess ... Jerry Larrabee
Betty Compson ... Alice Gray
William Holden ... Warden
Louis Natheaux ... Spadoni
George E. Stone ... Blackie (as George Stone)
Ray Turner ... Elevator Boy (as Raymond Turner)
Gladden James ... Jerry's Vaudeville Manager
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Additional Details

Runtime:
USA:86 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric System) (sound effects, music and talking sequences)
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Fun Stuff

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In a separately filmed trailer, Vitaphone production reel #2909, Richard Barthelmess talks to the audience about the film. more
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5 out of 5 people found the following review useful.
Interesting half-and-half, 19 March 2003

Turner Classic Movies presented "Weary River" in March of 2003 as part of its month of Oscar. I found it intriguing, even enjoyable. Partly because it was half-silent and half-sound, I was intrigued, since I have a deep and abiding interest in the earliest films. I enjoyed it for that reason, and because the story itself was, at the very least, pleasant, if not totally believable and realistic. Betty Compson, who played Alice, had a remarkably cute way of speaking, and whenever she called to her lover Jerry, played by Richard Barthelmess, she pronounced it "Jer-wy," which I found endearing. Great cinema? Perhaps not, but one I would like to see again, if only to prove to myself whether Barthelmess did his own singing. And to watch and hear the adorable Betty Compson.

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