Lonesome (Criterion Collection)

The early Hollywood gem LONESOME is the creation of a little-known but audacious and one-of-a-kind auteur, Paul Fejos (a filmmaker/explorer/anthropologist/doctor!), who bridged the gap between the silent and sound eras. Fejos pulled out all the stops for this lovely New York City symphony set in antic Coney Island during the Fourth of July weekend employing color tinting, superimposition effects, experimental editing, and a roving camera (plus three dialogue scenes, added because of the craze for talkies). for years, LONESOME has been a rare treat for festival and cinematheque audiences; it's only now coming to home video. Rarer still are the two other Fejos films included in this release: THE LAST PERFORMANCE (featuring a new score by Donald Sosin) and a reconstruction of the previously incomplete sound version of BROADWAY, in it's time the most expensive film ever produced at Universal.

Director: Paul Fejos
Producer: Carl Laemmle
Producer: Jr.
Actor: Gus Partos
Actor: Conrad Veidt
Actor: Barbara Kent
Actor: Evelyn Brent
Actor: Mary Philbin
Actor: Fay Holderness
Actor: Merna Kennedy
Actor: Fred MacKaye
Actor: Thomas Jackson
Actor: Gustav Partos
Actor: Robert Ellis
Actor: Eddie Phillips
Actor: Otis Harlan
Actor: Eddie Boland
Actor: Paul Porcasi
Actor: William H. Turner
Actor: Anders Randolf
Actor: Marion Lord
Actor: Sam DeGrasse
Actor: Fritz Feld
Actor: Leslie Fenton
Actor: George Irving
Actor: Arthur Housman
Actor: George Davis
Actor: Betty Francisco
Actor: Edythe Flynn
Actor: Florence Dudley
Actor: Andy Devine
Actor: Glenn Tryon
Actor: Ruby McCoy
Actor: Gus Arnheim and His Cocoanut Grove Ambassadors