Tenderloin

Tenderloin is a 1928 American part-talkie crime film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Dolores Costello. While the film was a part-talkie, it was mostly a silent film with a synchronized musical score and sound effects on Vitaphone discs. It was produced and released by Warner Bros. Tenderloin is considered a lost film, with no prints currently known to exist. Plot Rose Shannon (Dolores Costello), a dancing girl at "Kelly's," in the "Tenderloin" district of New York City, worships at a distance Chuck White (Conrad Nagel), a younger member of the gang that uses it as their hangout. Chuck's interest in her is as just another toy to play with. Rose is implicated in a crime which she knows nothing about. The police pick her up, and the gang sends Chuck to take care of her in the event she may know or disclose something that will implicate the gang. Cast Dolores Costello as Rose Shannon Conrad Nagel as Chuck White George E. Stone as "Sparrow" Mitchell Lewis as The professor Dan Wolheim as "Lefty" Pat Hartigan as "The Mug" Fred Kelsey as Detective Simpson G. Raymond Nye as Cowles Evelyn Pierce as Bobbie Dorothy Vernon as Aunt Molly John Miljan as bank teller