The Greyhound Limited

86 minutes
8 reels
6,114 feetLanguagesSound (Part-Talkie)
English Intertitles

The Greyhound Limited is 1929 part-talkie talkie crime drama and railroad theme film directed by Howard Bretherton and starring Monte Blue. In addition to sequences with audible dialogue or talking sequences, the film features a synchronized musical score and sound effects along with English intertitles. The soundtrack was recorded using the Vitaphone sound-on-disc system. The film was produced and distributed by Warner Bros.. The film is a follow-up to the 1927 film The Black Diamond Express.^[1]

The film survives in the Library of Congress and Wisconsin Center For Film and Theatre Research, Madison Wisconsin.^[2] The full soundtrack (except for reels 5, 7 and 8) survives on Vitaphone discs.^[3]

Cast

• Monte Blue as Monte
• Edna Murphy as Edna
• Grant Withers as Bill
• Lucy Beaumont as Mrs. Williams, Bill's mother
• Ernie Shields as Limpy
• Lew Harvey as The Rat

See also

• List of early sound feature films (1926–1929)
• List of early Warner Bros. sound and talking features

References

External links

• The Greyhound Limited at IMDb
• synopsis at AllMovie
• lobby poster(Wayback Machine)
• Lobby card