Blue Skies


1929

Film Details

Release Date
Mar 17, 1929
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Fox Film Corp.
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the short story "The Matron's Report" by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan in Cosmopolitan (Mar 1928).

Technical Specs

Sound
Mono (MovieTone) (musical score and sound effects), Silent
Color
Black and White
Film Length
5,408ft (6 reels)

Synopsis

" Blue Skies is Fox's kid version of Over the Hill . It's about an orphan asylum instead of a poorhouse, with none of the tears the adult orphan picture possessed. ... Youngsters occupy a reel with close-ups and ice cream. Hack situations of turning the hose on the matron, the fat boy getting a licking by the little boy for eating the tiny girl's ice cream--they're all in it. Then of a sudden it's Frank Albertson wearing overalls and Helen Twelvetrees, the girl. The kids around them are still as young as they were in the first reel, excepting one or two. A rich daddy visits the home and Frank changes his foundling dress for that of the girl's. Off she goes to the wealthy home. Of course a year later an identification card is found, but Frank satisfies daddy and the girl. Marriage does it." ( Variety 17 Jul 1929, p. 53.)

Film Details

Release Date
Mar 17, 1929
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Fox Film Corp.
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the short story "The Matron's Report" by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan in Cosmopolitan (Mar 1928).

Technical Specs

Sound
Mono (MovieTone) (musical score and sound effects), Silent
Color
Black and White
Film Length
5,408ft (6 reels)

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