The Rogue Song

The Rogue Song
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Directed byLionel Barrymore
Hal Roach (uncredited)
Screenplay byJohn Colton
Frances Marion
Wells Root (suggested by)
Based onGipsy Love
by Franz Lehár
Produced byIrving Thalberg
StarringLawrence Tibbett
Stan Laurel
Oliver Hardy
CinematographyPercy Hilburn (*French)
Charles Edgar Schoenbaum
(Technicolor)
Edited byMargaret Booth
Music byHerbert Stothart
Franz Lehár
Clifford Grey
Dimitri Tiomkin (ballet)[1]
Production
company
Distributed byLoew's, Inc.
Release dates
  • January 28, 1930 (1930-01-28) (NYC)
  • February 17, 1930 (1930-02-17) (LA)
  • May 10, 1930 (1930-05-10) (US)
Running time
103 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$646,000 (final negative cost)[2]
Box office$1,610,000 (worldwide)[2]

The Rogue Song is a 1930 American pre-Code romantic and musical film that tells the story of a Russian bandit who falls in love with a princess, but takes his revenge on her when her brother rapes and kills his sister. The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production was directed by Lionel Barrymore and released in two versions, with and without sound. Hal Roach wrote and directed the Laurel and Hardy sequences and was not credited. The film stars Metropolitan Opera singer Lawrence Tibbett—who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance—and Catherine Dale Owen. Laurel and Hardy were third-billed; their sequences were filmed at the last minute and interspersed throughout the film in an attempt to boost its potential box-office appeal.[1]

This film, MGM's first all-talking Technicolor film,[2] is partially lost as there are no known complete prints of this film. Fragments do exist.

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference variety was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b c Bann, Richard W. (2000) "More 'Rogue Song' Footage Found" laurel-and-hardy.com