East Side, West Side
Live music by Wayne Barker
Street thugs, scrappy immigrants, uptown swells, and a keen Irish bargeman who wants a better life for himself. Allan Dwan’s love letter to New York makes stops at the city’s storied spots, packing in all the color and verve of the place that by the ‘20s had already burnished its own mythology as somewhere anyone with a lot of grit and a bit of luck could rise from its bustling slums to its spacious drawing rooms.
Live music by Wayne Barker
Wayne Barker has garnered acclaim both for his original compositions and live performances in the theater, including a Tony nomination for best original score on Peter and the Starcatcher. His numerous credits include piano scores for Beth Henley’s Laugh, an homage to silent-era slapstick; and Joe DiPietro’s Hollywood, centered around the 1922 murder of director William Desmond Taylor. He composed for Dame Edna Everage as well as appeared onstage as Master of the Dame’s Music for six years.
Details
Director
Allan Dwan
Country
United States
Year
1927
Cast
George O’Brien, Virginia Valli, J. Farrell MacDonald
Runtime
88 min.
Format
DCP
Fri, Apr 12, 2024
1:00 PM
Palace of Fine Arts Theatre
$20 general
$18 member
12 and under, free