Bright Lights (1930 film)

Bright Lights, later retitled Adventures in Africa,[2] is a 1930 American pre-Code musical comedy film produced and released by First National Pictures, a subsidiary of Warner Bros.

Louanne is shown as a dancer at a low-class café where Portuguese smuggler Miguel Parada attempts to force his attentions on her.

When Louanne returns to the stage to resume her performance, Miguel, who is in the audience, recognizes her and visits her dressing room because he has some "unfinished business" with her.

When the police arrive, Wally tries to convince them that Miguel committed suicide to save Louanne from a scandal before her marriage.

[1] Writer Margaret Drennen[3] filed a $25,000 copyright-infringement suit against the filmmakers, claiming that the film was based on her original story.

In a contemporary review for The New York Times, critic Mordaunt Hall wrote: "[The film] is weighted down with an inept story which never rises above the dime-novel level.

"[4] Though the film was produced in Technicolor, only a black-and-white copy of the 1931 edited print (with some of the musical numbers cut) is known to have survived.

Recently discovered color fragment