The Shady Lady

The Shady Lady is a 1928 sound part-talkie American drama film directed by Edward H. Griffith and starring Phyllis Haver, Robert Armstrong and Louis Wolheim. Although the film featured a few sequences with audible dialogue, the majority of the film had a synchronized musical score with sound effects. The film was released in both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film format.

Synopsis
An innocent woman is unjustly mixed-up in a murder case in New York and flees to Havana where she is widely known as the "Shady Lady". In Cuba she becomes mixed up with a gang of gunrunners.

Cast

 * Phyllis Haver as Lola Mantell
 * Robert Armstrong as Blake
 * Louis Wolheim as Professor Holbrook
 * Russell Gleason as Haley
 * Jim Farley
 * Joyzelle Joyner

Music
The film featured a theme song entitled "Shady Lady" which was composed by Howard E. Johnson, Francis Gromon, Jack Grun and Josiah Zuro.

Critical reception
A review in Harrison's Reports said that the film was a good story, keeping the viewer's interest throughout, with "pretty tense suspense" in its second half. It added, "The manner by which the different threads of the story are interwoven in the closing scenes is intelligent, and satisfies the discriminating spectator." The review praised Haver, Armstrong, and Wolheim for their work.