Sono Art-World Wide Pictures

Sono Art-World Wide Pictures was an American film distribution and production company in operation from 1927 to 1933. Their first feature film was The Rainbow Man (1929), while one of their most prominent was The Great Gabbo (1929) starring Erich von Stroheim and directed by James Cruze for James Cruze Productions, Inc. One of the last films distributed by the company was A Study in Scarlet (1933) starring Reginald Owen as Sherlock Holmes.

Sono Art was the original U.S. distributor for four Alfred Hitchcock-directed films, Downhill (1927), Easy Virtue (1928), The Manxman (1929), and Blackmail (1929), as well as the British Anna May Wong vehicle Piccadilly (1929).

Merger

In 1933, Sono-Art merged with Rayart Pictures to form Monogram Pictures. The original Monogram merged into Republic Pictures in 1935; all Sono Art-World Wide and original Monogram productions have fallen into the public domain.

Filmography

References

External links

• Sono Art-World Wide Pictures at IMDB

1. Piccadilly (film)
2. The Death Kiss
3. Tiffany Pictures
4. The Great Gabbo
5. Between Fighting Men
6. The Lone Avenger
7. Multicolor
8. Rayart Pictures
9. Trailing the Killer
10. Dynamite Ranch
11. Monogram Pictures
12. Air Police (film)
13. B movies (Hollywood Golden Age)
14. List of film distributors by country
15. The Big Fight (1930 film)
16. List of early sound feature films (1926–1929)
17. Reno (1930 film)
18. Riders of the Desert
19. Poverty Row
20. South of Santa Fe (1932 film)