The Girl in the Glass Cage (1929)

The Girl in the Glass Cage is a 1929 American sound part-talkie crime drama film directed by Ralph Dawson and starring Loretta Young, Carroll Nye, Matthew Betz, Lucien Littlefield, and Ralph Lewis. In addition to sequences with audible dialogue or talking sequences, the film features a synchronized musical score and sound effects along with English intertitles. The original part-talkie version featured dialogue for a duration of 65 percent of its running time. According to the film review in Variety, the film was withdrawn shortly after being released and re-released with synchronized musical score with sound effects only due to an unspecified defect in the sound recording. The soundtrack was recorded using the Vitaphone sound-on-disc system. It is based on the 1927 novel of the same name by George Kibbe Turner. The film was released by Warner Bros. Pictures on June 23, 1929.