Say It with Songs

Say It with Songs

1929 · 95 min · ★ 5.5 · Music

Joe Lane, radio entertainer and songwriter, learns that the manager of the studio, Arthur Phillips, has made improper advances to his wife, Katherine. Infuriated, Lane engages him in a fight, and the encounter results in Phillips' accidental death. Joe goes to prison for a few years, and when he is released he visits his son, Little Pal, at school and is begged by him to run away together.

Directed by Lloyd Bacon · Written by Harvey Gates

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