light of new york originally start out a an experimental two reel vitaphone short that eventually snowball into the first all talkie feature film . helene costelle be supposedly one of the most beautiful actress in hollywood and sister to ( in my opinion the real beauty ) dolores costello and who seem to get all the break . poor helene be best know for appear in this pretty dreary film that buy a revolution to hollywood . two bootlegger on the lam in main street convince a couple of small town barber to try their luck on broadway . the barber eddie ( cullen landis ) and gene ( eugene palette ) do not realise that their barber shop be soon a cover for illegal bootlegging activity . they soon do realise it and regret the day they leave their small town . the only thing keep them go be the loan that eddie mother give them and that they desperately want to pay back . eddie become re acquaint with kitty lewis ( helene costello ) a girl from his home town who have make good on broadway . kitty be worry about hawk miller ( wheeler oakman ) who be always hang around her but eddie and innocently and think she be exaggerate a hawk already have a girlfriend molly ( gladys brockwell ) but to reassure her he give her a little handgun to frighten unwanted admirer away . hawk and who have kill a police officer and have the fed closing in and decides to frame eddie . meanwhile molly be get pretty feed up with hawks treatment of her and after a showdown where he tell her he be after a chicken and not an old hen the stage be set for murder . the fact be it isn not completely awful and apart from gangster and showgirl alike speak in their best elocution voice and that be still happen in film in 1930. gladys brockwell ( if a trifle melodramatic ) and eugene palette ( quite natural ) be okay and be the most seasoned actor in the cast . there be no john or ethel barrymore to be see cullen landis and helene costello soon return to the obscurity from which they have come . i also do not notice much of the hidden mike where people have to be group around different object ie a telephone or sit on a couch before they could engage in conversation . people who saw it at the cinema probably start to think that all policeman talk in that flat monotone a that trend continue in many early talkie ie little caesar ( 1930 ) . in any case they be probably intrigue by the novelty of a completely all talkie with some singing and dancing film in 1928. recommend .