Old San Francisco / Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. and the Vitaphone Corporation present ; by Darryl Francis Zanuck ; directed by Alan Crosland ; screen play by Anthony Coldewey.

A film about the struggle of the Vasquez family from the city's Spanish settlement that finds itself barely hanging on to their land at the turn of the century. Interwoven in the plot is the ploy of a Chinese man disguised as an Occidental to seduce a daughter of the Spanish aristocracy. Set to a Vi...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Archive collection.
Main Author: Riesenfeld, Hugo, 1879-1939 (Composer)
Corporate Authors: Warner Bros. Entertainment
Vitaphone Corp
Turner Entertainment Co
Warner Home Video (Firm)
Other Authors: Crosland, Alan, 1894-1936 (Director)
Coldeway, Anthony W., 1887-1963 (Screenwriter)
Costello, Dolores, 1905-1979 (Actor)
Oland, Warner, 1880-1938 (Actor)
Mack, Charles Emmett, 1900-1927 (Actor)
Swickard, Josef, 1866-1940 (Actor)
Miljian, John (Actor)
Randolph, Anders, 1876-1930 (Actor)
Kamiyama, Sōjin, 1884-1954 (Actor)
Rossitto, Angelo (Actor)
Wong, Anna May, 1905-1961
Mohr, Hal, 1894-1974 (Cinematographer)
McCord, Harold, 1893-1957 (Film editor)
Zanuck, Darryl Francis, 1902-1979
Language:No linguistic content
Published: [Calif.] : Burbank, CA : Turner Entertainment Co. ; Warner Bros. Entertainment : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2009]
Edition:Full-screen.
Series:Archive collection.
Subjects:
Chinese Americans > California > San Francisco > Drama.
Hispanic Americans > Land tenure > California > San Francisco > Drama.
San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906 > Drama.
Racially mixed people > California > San Francisco > Drama.
San Francisco (Calif.) > History > Drama.
Disaster films.
Action and adventure films.
Silent films.
Fiction films.
Feature films.
Genre:
Drama.
Disaster films.
Action and adventure films.
Silent films.
Fiction films.
Feature films.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (89 min.) : silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Format: Video DVD
Description
Summary:
A film about the struggle of the Vasquez family from the city's Spanish settlement that finds itself barely hanging on to their land at the turn of the century. Interwoven in the plot is the ploy of a Chinese man disguised as an Occidental to seduce a daughter of the Spanish aristocracy. Set to a Vitaphone soundtrack with synchronized music and sound effects the action careens from rancho to saloon to secret dungeon with a recreation of the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 as the finale.
Note:Originally released as a motion picture in 1927.
"This disc is expected to play back in "play only" devices, and may not play on other DVD devices, including recorders and PC drives"--Container.
Videorecording.
Call Number:PN1995.9.D55 O43 2009 VideoDVD
Credits:Photography, Hal Mohr ; film editor, Harold McCord ; Vitaphone score ; music score compiled by Hugo Riesenfeld.
System Details:DVD-R, mono.; Dolby digital; 1:33:1 aspect ratio.
Cast:
Dolores Costello, Warner Oland, Charles Emmett Mack, Josef Swickard, John Miljian, Anders Randolf, Sojin, Angelo Rossitto, Anna May Wong.