Painted Faces
Feature film · 69 min · dir. Albert S. Rogell
Laughs-Thrills-Tears In the Love Story of a Clown Acrobat Who Took a Heart Tumble.
- Crime
- Mystery
- Romance
Synopsis
After a vaudeville performer is murdered backstage, framed-up evidence lead the police to arrest a troupe member. At his trial, Hermann, a Scandinavian clown known as Beppo, is the lone juror holding out against conviction and pleading for his innocence and acquittal.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Albert S. Rogell
- Studio
- Tiffany-Stahl Productions
- Released
- 1929-11-19
- Running time
- 69 minutes
Cast & crew
- Albert S. Rogell Director
Joe E. Brown
Helen Foster
Dorothy Gulliver
Richard Tucker
Purnell Pratt
Mabel Julienne Scott- Barton Hepburn
- Lester Cole
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★ · "12 Angry Men" It's Not. Indeed! · bobsluckycat · 2015-10-04
Joe E. Brown made four "talkies" in 1929, 3 for Tiffany-Stahl Productions and the other for Warner Bros. Pictures. Previous to this he appeared in silent films for Warner Bros. and afterward until the end of his contract with them, he made many sound films for Warner Bros. Some of which were major successful films in the 1930's. Tiffany-Stahl was a major player in the film industry and probably had a distribution deal with Warner Bros which practically guaranteed making money since the negative cost could be recouped in the Warner Theatre Chain alone. This film was all talking and shot in two…
