ALIBI - DVD-1929-ROLAND WEST

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• Release Year: 1929
• Genre: Crime
• Plot: Strongly influenced by the German cinema of the 1920s, director Roland West (The Bat Whispers) created America's first expressionist crime film-a stylish thriller that presaged the rise of film noir.; ; Chester Morris stars as Chick Williams, a Prohibition gangster who rejoins his mob soon after being released from prison. When a policeman is murdered during a robbery, Williams falls under suspicion and the detective squad employs its most sophisticated and barbaric techniques to pin the crime on him.; ; Eye-grabbing compositions, eccentric Art Deco sets (designed by William Cameron Menzies) and the experimental use of sound make ALIBI like a cinematic funhouse-a carnival of shadow and violence and angst that dazzled viewers of 1929 and earned the film three Academy Award nominations.; ; For this edition, Kino has used a restored ALIBI soundtrack (which had been recorded on disc and edited in a primitive manner). Though some surface noise, distortion and level fluctuations remain, a good degree of improvement and consistency has been attained.
• Cast: Chester Morris, Harry Stubbs, Mae Busch, Eleanor Griffith, Regis Toomey, Purnell Pratt, Irma Harrison, Elmer Ballard, Diana Beaumont, James Bradbury Jr., Ed Brady, Kernan Cripps, Virginia Flohri, Al Hill, Edward Jardon, DeWitt Jennings, Pat O'Malley, Roland West
• Director: Roland West
• Runtime: 1:24
• Company: Feature Productions
• Media Format: Movie