Joe Lane, radio entertainer and songwriter, learns that the manager of the studio, Arthur Phillips, has made improper advances to his wife, Katherine. Infuriated, Lane engages him in a fight, and the encounter results in Phillips' accidental death. Joe goes to prison for a few years, and when he is released he visits his son, Little Pal, at school and is begged by him to run away together.










5th August 1929
96 years ago
1 hour 35 minutes
Finishes at 12:55am
$470,000 ($7,159,228 today)
Revenue $2,266,000


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