The Spieler

The Spieler is a 1928 American sound part-talkie drama film directed by Tay Garnett and starring Alan Hale, Clyde Cook and Renée Adorée. While the film had a few sequences with audible dialog, the majority of the film featured a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process. The film's sets were designed by the art director Edward C. Jewell.

The Spieler
Directed by	Tay Garnett
Written by	Hal Conklin Tay Garnett John W. Krafft
Starring	Alan Hale Clyde Cook Renée Adorée
Cinematography	Arthur C. Miller
Edited by	Doane Harrison
Music by	Josiah Zuro
Production company	Ralph Block Productions
Distributed by	Pathé Exchange
Release date	December 20, 1928 (1928-12-20)
Running time	62 minutes
Country	United States
Languages	Sound (Part-Talkie) English intertitles

Cast

• Alan Hale as Flash
• Clyde Cook as Luke aka 'Perfesser' McIntosh
• Renée Adorée as Cleo d'Alzelle
• Fred Kohler as Red Moon
• Fred Warren as The Baker
• James Quinn as The Rabbit
• Kewpie Morgan as Butch
• Billie Latimer as Bearded Lady

Music

The film featured a theme song entitled "Your Heart Looks Into Mine." Josiah Zuro arranged and directed the recording session for the soundtrack.

See also

• List of early sound feature films (1926–1929)

Bibliography

• Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.

External links

• The Spieler at IMDb
• The Spieler is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive