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, while one of their most prominent was The Great Gabbo 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 starring Reginald Owen as Sherlock Holmes.
Sono Art was the original U.S. distributor for four Alfred Hitchcock-directed films, Downhill, Easy Virtue, The Manxman, and Blackmail, as well as the British Anna May Wong vehicle Piccadilly.

Merger

In 1932, Sono Art-World Wide acquired Tiffany Pictures.
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

The Talk of Hollywood The Great Gabbo Blaze o' Glory The Rainbow Man Midnight Daddies Hello Sister What a Man Cock o' the Walk The Big Fight The Dude Wrangler Rogue of the Rio Grande Once a Gentleman Reno The Costello Case Damaged Love Swanee River Mounted Fury Murder at Midnight Air Police In Old Cheyenne First Aid Hell-Bent for Frisco Is There Justice? Neck and Neck Law of the West The Last Mile Texas Buddies Riders of the Desert Between Fighting Men Come On, Tarzan Those We Love The Crooked Circle Son of Oklahoma The Man from Hell's Edges Sunset Trail False Faces Breach of Promise Trailing the Killer South of Santa Fe Dynamite Ranch Tombstone Canyon The Man Called Back Those We Love The Death Kiss Uptown New York Cannonball Express Devil on Deck Hypnotized Racetrack Fargo Express Phantom Thunderbolt The Lone Avenger The Constant Woman Drum Taps