Big Time (1929 film)

Big Time
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Directed by	Kenneth Hawks
Written by	Wallace Smith (story) Sidney Lanfield William K. Wells
Starring	Lee Tracy Mae Clarke
Cinematography	L. William O'Connell
Edited by	Alfred DeGaetano
Production company	Fox Film Corporation
Release date	September 7, 1929 (1929-09-07)
Running time	87 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Big Time ad in The Film Daily , 1929

Big Time is a 1929 American sound (All-Talking) pre-Code film starring Lee Tracy and Mae Clarke ^[1] as a show business couple who break up over his infidelity. This was Clarke's film debut. Director Kenneth Hawks was Howard Hawks' brother. ^[2]

Cast

• Lee Tracy as Eddie Burns
• Mae Clarke as Lily Clark
• Daphne Pollard as Sybil
• Josephine Dunn as Gloria
• Stepin Fetchit as Eli

Director John Ford had a cameo as himself.

See also

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

References

1. "Big Time (1929)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on October 17, 2017. Retrieved August 24, 2021.
2. McBride, Joseph, Hawks on Hawks , University of Kentucky Press, 2013

External links

• Big Time at IMDb