Red Hot Rhythm

Red Hot Rhythm (1929) is an American pre-Code early sound musical film directed by Leo McCarey, and starring Alan Hale Sr., Kathryn Crawford, Walter O'Keefe, and Josephine Dunn.

Red Hot Rhythm
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Directed by	Leo McCarey
Produced by	William Conselman Joseph P. Kennedy
Starring	Alan Hale Sr. Kathryn Crawford Walter O'Keefe Josephine Dunn
Cinematography	John J. Mescall
Music by	Josiah Zuro (uncredited)
Distributed by	Pathé Exchange
Release date	November 23, 1929 (1929-11-23)
Running time	75 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

As originally released by Pathé Exchange, the film featured sequences in Multicolor.^[1] However the whole film was considered a lost film, except one number in color, the title song that survives.^[2]

Cast

• Alan Hale Sr. as Walter
• Kathryn Crawford as Mary
• Walter O'Keefe as Sam
• Josephine Dunn as Claire
• Anita Garvin as Mable
• Ilka Chase as Mrs. Fioretta
• Ernest Hilliard as Eddie Graham
• Harry Bowen as Whiffle
• James Clemens as Singe (credited as Jimmy Clemons)

Music

The film featured six songs ("Red Hot Rhythm," "Out Of The Past," "At Last I'm In Love," "My Idea Of Heaven," "When You're A Part Of Me" and "The Night That Elmer Died") which were all composed by Walter O'Keefe and Robert Emmett Dolan.

See also

• List of early color feature films