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Tenderloin is a 1928 American part-talkie crime film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Dolores Costello.[3] While the film was a part-talkie, it was mostly a silent film with a synchronized musical score and sound effects on Vitaphone discs.[4] It was produced and released by Warner Bros. Tenderloin is considered a lost film, with no prints currently known to exist.[5][6][1]

Tenderloin
theatrical release poster
Directed by	Michael Curtiz
Written by	Edward T. Lowe Jr. (scenario, adaptation, dialogue & titles) Joseph Jackson (dialogue & titles)
Story by	"Melvin Crossman" (Darryl Zanuck)
Starring	Dolores Costello
Cinematography	Hal Mohr
Edited by	Ralph Dawson
Production company	Warner Bros. Pictures
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release dates	March 14, 1928 (1928-03-14) (NYC) March 28, 1928 (1928-03-28) (US) [1] ([1])
Running time	85 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$188,000[2]
Box office	$985,000[2]

Plot

Rose Shannon (Dolores Costello), a dancing girl at "Kelly's," in the "Tenderloin" district of New York City, worships at a distance Chuck White (Conrad Nagel), a younger member of the gang that uses it as their hangout. Chuck's interest in her is as just another toy to play with. Rose is implicated in a crime which she knows nothing about. The police pick her up, and the gang sends Chuck to take care of her in the event she may know or disclose something that will implicate the gang.

Cast

• Dolores Costello as Rose Shannon
• Conrad Nagel as Chuck White
• George E. Stone as "Sparrow"
• Mitchell Lewis as The professor
• Dan Wolheim as "Lefty"
• Pat Hartigan as "The Mug"
• Fred Kelsey as Detective Simpson
• G. Raymond Nye as Cowles
• Evelyn Pierce as Bobbie
• Dorothy Vernon as Aunt Molly
• John Miljan as bank teller

Premiere Vitaphone short subjects

Tenderloin premiered at the Warners' Theatre in New York City on March 14, 1928.

Title	Year
Orpheus in the Underworld Overture	1927
Beniamino Gigli & Giuseppe de Luca in Duet from Act 1 of "The Pearl Fishers" (Les pêcheurs de perles)	1927
Abe Lyman and His Orchestra	1928
Xavier Cugat and His Gigolos ("A Spanish Ensemble”)	1928
Adele Rowland in "Stories in Song"	1928

Production

Tenderloin was the second Vitaphone feature with talking sequences that Warner Bros. released, five months after The Jazz Singer. The film contained 15 minutes of spoken dialog, and Warners promoted it as the first film in which actors actually spoke their roles. Reportedly, at the film's premiere, the feature was met with derisive laughter as a result of the film's stilted dialogue, resulting in two of the four talking sequences being eliminated during the first week of the film's premiere run.[7] Critic Harriette Underhill wrote that the "screen talking devices give the characters a certain lisp, slightly detracts from the serious effect."[8]

Box Office

According to Warner Bros records the film earned $889,000 domestically and $96,000 foreign.[2]

See also

• List of lost films
• List of early Warner Bros. talking features

References

Further reading

• Hall, Mordaunt (March 15, 1928) "A Film with Dialogue" (review) The New York Times

External links

• Tenderloin at the American Film Institute Catalog
• Tenderloin at IMDb
• Tenderloin at the TCM Movie Database
• Tenderloin at AllMovie
• Tenderloin Vitaphone soundtrack disk reel 1 at SoundCloud

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