Voice of the City

The Voice of the City
Warner Archive DVD cover
Directed by	Willard Mack
Written by	Willard Mack (story, screenplay) Joseph W. Farnham (intertitles)
Produced by	Irving Thalberg (uncredited)
Starring	Robert Ames
Cinematography	Max Fabian
Edited by	William S. Gray Basil Wrangell
Production companies	Cosmopolitan Productions Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date	April 13, 1929 (1929-04-13)
Running time	81 minutes 9 reels (sound version)
Country	United States
Language	English

The Voice of the City is a 1929 American pre-Code crime mystery film by Willard Mack and starring Robert Ames. The work uses an original screenplay by Willard Mack, and is not related to the story of the same name by O. Henry.

The film became available on DVD on January 31, 2012 from the Warner Archive Collection.

Premise

A young man is accused of murder and a master detective is set to track him down and uncover conclusive evidence of his guilt, but the more he works on the case, the more he becomes convinced that the accused is not the real killer. He discovers that the murder was committed by a notorious gangster who's attempting to frame the boy.

Cast

• Robert Ames as Bobby Doyle
• Jim Farley as Inspector Wilmot
• Sylvia Field as Beebe
• Willard Mack as Detective Biff Myers
• Clark Marshall as Johnny the Hop aka Snow Bird
• Duane Thompson as Mary Doyle
• Tom McGuire as Detective Kelly
• John Miljan as Don Wilkes
• Alice Moe as Martha
• Beatrice Banyard as Betsy

See also

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

External links

• Voice of the City at IMDb
• Voice of the City; allmovie.com/ synopsis