Old San Francisco

Old San Francisco
theatrical release poster
Directed by	Alan Crosland
Written by	Jack Jarmuth (titles)
Screenplay by	Anthony Coldeway
Story by	Darryl F. Zanuck
Starring	Dolores Costello
Music by	Hugo Riesenfeld
Cinematography	Hal Mohr
Edited by	Harold McCord
Production company	Warner Bros. Pictures
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release dates	June 21, 1927 (1927-06-21) (NYC) September 4, 1927 (1927-09-04) (US) ^[1]
Running time	88 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent English intertitles Vitaphone sound effects

Old San Francisco is a 1927 American silent historical drama film starring Dolores Costello and featuring Warner Oland. The film, which was produced and distributed by Warner Bros., was directed by Alan Crosland.

Plot

Chris Buckwell (Warner Oland), cruel and greedy czar of San Francisco's Tenderloin District, is heartless in his persecution of the Chinese, though he himself is secretly a half-caste. Buckwell, eager to possess the land of Don Hernández Vásquez (Josef Swickard), sends Michael Brandon (Anders Randolph), an unscrupulous attorney, to make an offer. Brandon's nephew, Terrence (Charles E. Mack), meets the grandee's beautiful daughter, Dolores (Dolores Costello), while Vásquez refuses the offer. Terry tries to save the Vásquez land grants, but when Chris causes the grandee's death, Dolores takes an oath to avenge her father. Learning that Chris is a half-caste, Dolores induces his feeble-minded dwarf brother (Angelo Rossita) to denounce him; he captures her and Terry, but they are saved from torture and death by the great earthquake of 1906 that kills the villain.

Cast

Dolores Costello as Dolores Vasquez
Warner Oland as Chris Buckwell
Charles E. Mack as Terrence "Terry" O'Shaughnessy
Josef Swickard as Don Hernandez de Vasquez
Anders Randolph as Michael Brandon
Angelo Rossita as Chang Loo, a dwarf
Anna May Wong as A Flower of the Orient

Lawson Butt as Captain Enrique de Solano Y Vasquez (in Prologue)
Walter McGrail as Vasquez's grandson, who gets shot (in Prologue)
Otto Matieson as another Vasquez grandson (in Prologue)
Martha Mattox as Mother Vasquez (in Prologue)
Thomas Santschi as Captain Stoner (in Prologue)
Louise Carver as Big nosed woman on the Mile of Hell (uncredited)
Rose Dione as Madame in Den of Iniquity (uncredited)
Willie Fung as Chang Sue Lee's laughing servant (uncredited)
Tom McGuire as Man at poodle dog cafe (uncredited)
John Miljan as Don Luis (uncredited)
Sōjin Kamiyama as Lu Fong (uncredited)
James Wang as One of Chang Sue Lee's servants (uncredited)

Production

The film was released in a silent version and in a Vitaphone version, with sound-on-disc recording of music and sound effects only. It was the fifth Warner Brothers feature film to have Vitaphone musical accompaniment. Just one month later, on October 6, Warner Bros. released The Jazz Singer with music, sound effects, and spoken dialogue. Warner Bros. later reused some of the footage from Old San Francisco for the 1906 San Francisco earthquake sequence in The Sisters (1938).^[2] This is Charles Emmett Mack's final film appearance; he was killed in an automobile accident six months prior to the film's release.^[3]

Preservation status

A print of the film still exists at the Library of Congress, George Eastman House and Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research, as well as its Vitaphone soundtrack and has been restored by the UCLA Film and Television Archive in association with other organizations such as the Library of Congress and the Museum of Modern Art. And was released on manufactured-on-demand DVD by the Warner Archive Collection series on September 15, 2009.^[4]

References

↑ Old San Francisco at the American Film Institute Catalog
↑ "''Old San Francisco'' at silentera.com database". Silentera.com. Retrieved 2012-03-31.
↑ Fandango
↑ Steffens, James "Old San Francisco" (article) TCM.com

External links

Films directed by Alan Crosland

The Unbeliever (1918)
The Flapper (1920)
Room and Board (1921)
Slim Shoulders (1922)
The Face in the Fog (1922)
Enemies of Women (1923)
Under the Red Robe (1923)
Three Weeks (1924)
Miami (1924)
Unguarded Women (1924)
Sinners in Heaven (1924)
Contraband (1925)
Bobbed Hair (1925)
Compromise (1925)
Don Juan (1926)
When a Man Loves (1927)
The Beloved Rogue (1927)
Old San Francisco (1927)
The Jazz Singer (1927)
Glorious Betsy (1928)
On with the Show (1929)
General Crack (1930)
The Furies (1930)
Song of the Flame (1930)
Big Boy (1930)
Children of Dreams (1931)
The Silver Lining (1932)
Week Ends Only (1932)
Hello, Sister! (1933)
The Personality Kid (1934)
The Case of the Howling Dog (1934)
It Happened in New York (1935)
Mister Dynamite (1935)
Lady Tubbs (1935)
King Solomon of Broadway (1935)
The Great Impersonation (1935)
The White Cockatoo (1935)

Darryl F. Zanuck

Producer

1964 The Visit
1962 The Chapman Report
1962 The Longest Day
1961 The Big Gamble
1961 Sanctuary
1960 Crack in the Mirror
1958 The Roots of Heaven
1957 The Sun Also Rises
1957 Island in the Sun
1956 The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
1955 The View from Pompey's Head
1954 The Egyptian
1952 The Snows of Kilimanjaro
1952 Viva Zapata!
1951 People Will Talk
1951 David and Bathsheba
1950 All About Eve
1950 No Way Out
1949 Twelve O'Clock High
1949 Pinky
1948 The Snake Pit
1948 Fury at Furnace Creek
1947 Gentleman's Agreement
1946 The Razor's Edge
1944 Winged Victory
1944 Wilson
1944 The Purple Heart
1942 Thunder Birds
1942 This Above All
1942 To the Shores of Tripoli
1942 Sex Hygiene (Short)
1942 Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
1941 How Green Was My Valley
1941 A Yank in the R.A.F.
1941 Blood and Sand
1941 The Great American Broadcast
1941 Tobacco Road
1941 Hudson's Bay
1940 The Mark of Zorro
1940 Down Argentine Way
1940 Brigham Young
1940 The Return of Frank James
1940 The Man I Married
1940 Little Old New York
1940 The Grapes of Wrath
1939 The Little Princess
1939 Swanee River
1939 Hollywood Cavalcade
1939 The Rains Came
1939 Stanley and Livingstone
1939 Rose of Washington Square
1939 The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
1939 Wife, Husband and Friend
1939 Tail Spin
1939 Jesse James
1938 Submarine Patrol
1938 My Lucky Star
1938 Little Miss Broadway
1938 Just Around the Corner
1938 Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
1938 Always Goodbye
1938 Kentucky Moonshine
1938 International Settlement
1938 Happy Landing
1937 In Old Chicago
1937 Lancer Spy
1937 Thin Ice
1937 Wake Up and Live
1937 Wee Willie Winkie
1937 Slave Ship
1937 Seventh Heaven
1936 Pigskin Parade
1936 Sing, Baby, Sing
1936 Poor Little Rich Girl
1936 The Road to Glory
1936 Under Two Flags
1936 A Message to Garcia
1936 It Had to Happen
1936 The Prisoner of Shark Island
1935 Professional Soldier
1935 The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
1935 Thanks a Million
1935 Metropolitan
1935 The Call of the Wild
1935 Cardinal Richelieu
1935 Les Misérables
1935 Folies Bergère de Paris
1934 The Mighty Barnum
1934 Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
1934 Born to Be Bad
1934 Looking for Trouble
1934 Moulin Rouge
1933 Blood Money
1933 The Bowery
1933 Ex-Lady
1933 The Working Man'
1933 42nd Street
1933 Parachute Jumper
1932 20,000 Years in Sing Sing
1932 Three on a Match
1932 The Cabin in the Cotton
1932 Life Begins
1932 Doctor X
1932 The Rich Are Always with Us
1932 The Man Who Played God
1931 The Public Enemy
1931 Illicit
1931 Little Caesar
1931 The Doorway to Hell
1930 Three Faces East
1929 The Show of Shows
1928 Tenderloin
1927 The Jazz Singer
1927 The First Auto
1927 Old San Francisco

Writer

as Mark Canfield	1960 Crack in the Mirror 1933 Baby Face (story) 1930 Maybe It's Love 1927 The Desired Woman (story)

as Melville Crossman	1944 The Purple Heart (story) 1942 China Girl (story) 1942 Thunder Birds (original story) 1941 A Yank in the R.A.F. (story) 1935 Thanks a Million (story) 1928 State Street Sadie (story) 1928 Tenderloin (story)

as Gregory Rogers	1928 The Midnight Taxi (story) 1925 Three Weeks in Paris (story, screenplay as Darryl Zanuck) 1924 The Lighthouse by the Sea (Rin Tin Tin story) 1924 Find Your Man (Rin Tin Tin story)

as self	1942 Ten Gentlemen from West Point 1940 The Great Profile (story – uncredited) 1938 Alexander's Ragtime Band (contributing writer – uncredited) 1937 This Is My Affair (story – uncredited) 1935 G Men (story) 1935 Folies Bergère de Paris (contributing writer – uncredited) 1933 Lady Killer (story – uncredited) 1932 The Dark Horse (story) 1931 Little Caesar (story – uncredited) 1930 The Life of the Party 1929 Say It with Songs (story) 1929 Madonna of Avenue A (story) 1929 Hardboiled Rose (story) 1928 My Man (story) 1928 Noah's Ark (story) 1927 Good Time Charley (story) 1927 The First Auto (story) 1927 Old San Francisco 1927 Tracked by the Police (Rin Tin Tin story) 1926 The Better 'Ole (screenplay) 1926 Across the Pacific (adaptation) 1926 Footloose Widows 1926 The Social Highwayman 1926 The Little Irish Girl (adaptation) 1926 The Caveman (scenario) 1925 Hogan's Alley 1925 Red Hot Tires 1925 A Broadway Butterfly

Executive Producer

1970 Tora! Tora! Tora! (uncredited)
1956 The King and I (uncredited)
1941 Wild Geese Calling
1938 Kentucky
1936 Banjo on My Knee
1936 Reunion
1936 Ramona

People

Virginia Fox (wife)
Richard D. Zanuck (son)
Dean Zanuck (grandson)

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