Sono Art-World Wide Pictures
- For the Billy Graham film production company, see World Wide Pictures. For the UK company, see World Wide Pictures (UK).
Sono Art-World Wide Pictures was an American film distribution and production company that operated from 1927 to 1933.[1] Their first feature film was The Rainbow Man (1929), while one of their most prominent was The Great Gabbo (1929) starring Erich von Stroheim and directed by James Cruze for James Cruze Productions, Inc.[2] One of the last films distributed by the company was A Study in Scarlet (1933) starring Reginald Owen as Sherlock Holmes.
Sono Art was also the original U.S. distributor for four Alfred Hitchcock films, Downhill (1927), Easy Virtue (1928), The Manxman (1929), and Blackmail (1929), as well as the British Anna May Wong vehicle Piccadilly (1929).
Merger
In 1933, Sono-Art merged with Rayart Pictures to form Monogram Pictures. The original Monogram (including its library) merged into Republic Pictures in 1935; that library is now owned by Paramount Pictures (through Republic), although all Sono Art-World Wide productions have fallen into the public domain.
Selected filmography
- The Talk of Hollywood (1929)
- The Great Gabbo (1929)
- Blaze o' Glory (1929)
- The Rainbow Man (1929)
- Hello Sister (1930)
- What a Man (1930)
- Cock o' the Walk (1930)
- The Big Fight (1930)
- The Dude Wrangler (1930)
- Rogue of the Rio Grande (1930)
- Once a Gentleman (1930)
- Reno (1930)
- The Costello Case (1930)
- Damaged Love (1931)
- Swanee River (1931)
- Mounted Fury (1931)
- Air Police (1931)
- In Old Cheyenne (1931)
- First Aid (1931)
- Hell-Bent for Frisco (1931)
- Is there Justice? (1931)
- Neck and Neck (1931)
- South of Santa Fe (1932)
- Law of the West (1932)
- The Last Mile (1932)
- Texas Buddies (1932)
- Those We Love (1932)
- The Crooked Circle (1932)
- Son of Oklahoma (1932)
- False Faces (1932)
- Breach of Promise (1932)
- Trailing the Killer (1932)
- Uptown New York (1932)
- Devil on Deck (1932)
- Hypnotized (1932)
- The Constant Woman (1933)
- Drum Taps (1933)
- A Study in Scarlet (1933)
References
- ↑ Slide, Anthony (25 February 2014). The New Historical Dictionary of the American Film Industry. Taylor & Francis. p. 384. ISBN 978-1-135-92561-1.
- ↑ Pitts, Michael R. (25 July 2005). Poverty Row Studios, 1929–1940. McFarland. pp. 339–358. ISBN 978-1-4766-1036-8.