Two Weeks Off

Two Weeks Off is a 1929 American sound part-talkie comedy film directed by William Beaudine.^[2] In addition to sequences with audible dialogue or talking sequences, the film features a synchronized musical score and sound effects along with English intertitles. According to the film review in Variety, 25 percent of the total running time featured dialogue. ^[3] The soundtrack was recorded using the Vitaphone sound-on-disc system. A complete nitrate print survives at the UCLA Film & Television Archive.^[4]

Two Weeks Off
Directed by	William Beaudine
Screenplay by	F. McGrew Willis Joseph F. Poland
Based on	the novel, Weeks Off, a Summertime Comedy by Thomas Barrows Kenyon Nicholson
Produced by	Richard A. Rowland
Starring	Dorothy Mackaill
Cinematography	Sidney Hickox
Edited by	Ralph Holt
Music by	Alois Reiser (uncredited)
Distributed by	First National Pictures[1]
Release date	May 12, 1929 (1929-05-12)
Running time	88 minutes
Country	United States
Languages	Sound (part-talkie) English intertitles

Cast

• Dorothy Mackaill as Kitty Weaver
• Jack Mulhall as Dave Pickett
• Gertrude Astor as Agnes
• James Finlayson as Pa Weaver
• Kate Price as Ma Weaver
• Jed Prouty as Harry
• Eddie Gribbon as Sid Winters
• Gertrude Messinger as Tessie McCann

Music

The film features a theme song entitled "Love Thrills" with words by Al Bryan and music by George W. Meyer.

See also

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