One of Warner Brothers' biggest hits of 1927. This film, along with When a Man Loves (1927) allowed the studio to sustain itself--largely on reputation--through the costly early days of Vitaphone sound conversion. Most of the studio's 43 films made that year were both unprofitable and silent. Warners had literally bet its survival on the fortunes of Vitaphone with the release of its second sound-on-disk feature, Il cantante di jazz (1927), in October.

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