So This Is College
(1929)
97 mins | Comedy-drama | 8 November 1929
Director:
Sam WoodWriters:
Al Boasberg, Delmer DavesCinematographer:
Leonard SmithEditor:
Frank SullivanProduction Designer:
Cedric GibbonsProduction Company:
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.College Days was the working title for the film. According to a production directory in the 20 Apr 1929 Exhibitors Herald-World, production began on 25 Mar 1929. Portions of the film were shot on location on the campus of the University of Southern California (USC). Newsreel footage from the 1928 USC-Stanford football game was intercut into the fictionalized game near the end of the picture.
The film's onscreen music credits read: "Music by Martin Broones, Interpolations by Fred Fisher, Jesse Greer, Raymond Klages, Charlotte Greenwood and Al Boasberg." ...
College Days was the working title for the film. According to a production directory in the 20 Apr 1929 Exhibitors Herald-World, production began on 25 Mar 1929. Portions of the film were shot on location on the campus of the University of Southern California (USC). Newsreel footage from the 1928 USC-Stanford football game was intercut into the fictionalized game near the end of the picture.
The film's onscreen music credits read: "Music by Martin Broones, Interpolations by Fred Fisher, Jesse Greer, Raymond Klages, Charlotte Greenwood and Al Boasberg."
Biff and Eddie, two college classmates at the University of Southern California, are life-long friends, fraternity brothers, and members of the football team. Although they make a vow at the beginning of their senior year that they will no longer allow their pursuit of girls to get into the way of friendship, they soon break their vow when both fall for pretty Babs Baxter, a popular co-ed. Vying for her affections, Biff and Eddie play pranks on each other that soon cause a serious breach in their relationship. When Biff finally realizes that Eddie wants to marry Babs, he decides to step aside for the sake of their friendship, but at the season's big football game, both realize that Babs has merely been toying with them when she introduces her fiancé, Bruce. After winning the game, Biff and Eddie decide never again to let girls come between them--until they see another pretty girl in the ...
Biff and Eddie, two college classmates at the University of Southern California, are life-long friends, fraternity brothers, and members of the football team. Although they make a vow at the beginning of their senior year that they will no longer allow their pursuit of girls to get into the way of friendship, they soon break their vow when both fall for pretty Babs Baxter, a popular co-ed. Vying for her affections, Biff and Eddie play pranks on each other that soon cause a serious breach in their relationship. When Biff finally realizes that Eddie wants to marry Babs, he decides to step aside for the sake of their friendship, but at the season's big football game, both realize that Babs has merely been toying with them when she introduces her fiancé, Bruce. After winning the game, Biff and Eddie decide never again to let girls come between them--until they see another pretty girl in the park.
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