Lonesome (film)

Lonesome
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Paul Fejös
Produced by	Carl Laemmle Carl Laemmle, Jr. Oskar Schubert-Stevens
Story by	Mann Page
Starring	Barbara Kent Glenn Tryon Fay Holderness
Cinematography	Gilbert Warrenton
Edited by	Frank Atkinson
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date	June 20, 1928 (silent version) Sept 30, 1928 (sound version)
Running time	69 min (silent version) 75 min (sound version)
Country	United States
Language	English

Lonesome is a 1928 part-talkie film by the Hungarian-born American director Paul Fejös. It was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures. In 2010, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The film was released on Blu-ray disc and DVD on August 28, 2012, as part of the Criterion Collection.

It was remade in 1935 as a comedy called The Affair of Susan.

In New York, Mary is a telephone operator who lives alone and is lonely. Jim is a factory worker who lives alone and is lonely. Each decides to go to the beach (presumably Coney Island) and both are captivated with each other, eventually realizing, moreover, that they really do like each other. Having gone from loneliness to finding love, enjoying the company of each other and having fun, they are separated, because of exigent circumstances and hundreds of visitors to the beach that day. Only knowing each other's first name, and having only a small photo of each other, Jim and Mary are desperate to find each other. Will these two lonesome individuals who have discovered their love for each other lose it all the same day?

Lonesome was one of the first motion pictures to have sound and a couple of talking scenes. It was released in both silent and monaural versions. Some scenes in existing original prints of the film are colored with stencils.