Lonesome is a 1928 American sound part-talkie comedy drama film directed by Paul Fejös, and starring Barbara Kent and Glenn Tryon.

Its plot follows two working-class residents of New York City over a 24-hour-period, during which they have a chance meeting at Coney Island during the Independence Day weekend and swiftly fall in love with one another.

During the Independence Day weekend, both Mary and Jim decide to visit Coney Island alone after finishing their Saturday half-day work shifts.

The film featured a theme song entitled "Lonesome" with music by Joseph Cherniavsky and words by Dave Dreyer and Herman Ruby.

By the time it was ready for general release, Lonesome has been equipped with a synchronized soundtrack, with music, sound effects, and three[6] dialogue scenes.

[6] Jonathan Rosenbaum wrote: "...Paul Fejos’s exquisite, poetic 1928 masterpiece about love and estrangement in the big city, deserves to be ranked with The Crowd as well as Sunrise, though it’s not nearly as well-known as either".

[12] Pat Kewley of PopMatters wrote: "...director Paul Fejös' rarely-seen 1928 film Lonesome, an audacious and visually spectacular urban love story from dawn of the talkie era, comes as close to the real deal as you're likely to find these days".

In finding its plot in the day-to-day activities of everyday life, Lonesome reminds of a narrative version of Berlin: Symphony of a Great City, and also anticipates the docu-drama prototype People on Sunday that borrows significantly from Fejos' story".

[5] "The original nitrate print was repatriated to the US (George Eastman House) in a trade that James Card made with Henri Langlois at the Cinémathèque Française".