The Girl from Havana (1929)
Directed by Benjamin Stoloff
Genres - Crime |
Sub-Genres - Romantic Adventure |
Release Date - Sep 22, 1929 (USA - Unknown) |
Run Time - 65 min. |
Countries - United States |
MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson
The Girl from Havana is a kaleidoscopic early-talkie brew of comedy, melodrama, romance, and high-steppin' musical numbers. Lola Lane, a detective for a jeweler's protective association, disguises herself as a chorus girl and books passage on a Havana-bound liner. Her quarry is young Paul Page, who has joined a gang of jewel thieves after being implicated in a spectacular heist (wherein a phony mad dog was used as subterfuge). Like Lane, Page is not all he seems--he has allowed himself to be disgraced so that he can infiltrate the gang responsible for the murder of his jeweler father. Joining forces, Lane and Page collar the criminals.
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attack, battle [war], chorus-girl, clerk, con/scam, customer, detective, disguise, dog, establishment [business], father, gangster, girl, humiliation, infiltration, jewel-robbery, killing, lover, manager, maniac, missing, oceanliner, opal, patron, pearl, ring [jewelry], robbery, romance, sea, search, store, trail [path], wrestling-Greco-Roman
