Sono Art-World Wide Pictures


distributed by Sono Art-World Wide Pictures
Sono Art-World Wide Pictures was an American film distribution and production company that operated 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.
 produced by Tiffany Pictures and released by Sono Art-World Wide Pictures with Sono Art logo in lower right corner of poster
Sono Art was also the original U.S. distributor for four Alfred Hitchcock films, Downhill, Easy Virtue, The Manxman, and Blackmail, as well as the British Anna May Wong vehicle Piccadilly.

Merger

In 1933, Sono-Art merged with Rayart Pictures to form Monogram Pictures. The original Monogram merged into Republic Pictures in 1935; that library is now owned by Paramount Pictures, although all Sono Art-World Wide productions have fallen into the public domain.

Filmography