Tenderloin is a 1928 American sound part-talkie crime film directed by Michael Curtiz, and starring Dolores Costello.
[4] It was produced and released by Warner Bros. Tenderloin is considered a lost film, with no prints currently known to exist.
[5][6][1] Rose Shannon (Dolores Costello), a dancing girl at "Kelly's," in the "Tenderloin" district of New York City, worships at a distance Chuck White (Conrad Nagel), a younger member of the gang that uses it as their hangout.
Tenderloin was the second Vitaphone feature with talking sequences that Warner Bros. released, five months after The Jazz Singer.
[7] Critic Harriette Underhill wrote that the "screen talking devices give the characters a certain lisp, slightly detracts from the serious effect.