Sombras de gloria is a Spanish-language American film

Cinema of the United States

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 released in 1930. It was produced by Sono Art-World Wide Pictures

Sono Art-World Wide Pictures

Sono Art-World Wide Pictures was an American film distribution and production company that existed from 1927 to 1933. Among their feature films was The Great Gabbo starring Erich von Stroheim and directed by James Cruze for James Cruze Productions, Inc...

 to serve as an alternate-language version of their English-language release Blaze o' Glory (1929). It was the first foreign-language sound film produced in the United States.

Plot

Sombras de gloria, like Blaze o' Glory, takes its premise from the story The Long Shot by Thomas Alexander Boyd. It is part war movie

War film

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, part courtroom drama

Legal drama

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Production and distribution

According to modern web sources, Sombras de gloria was shot at Metropolitan Studios in Hollywood in October 1929. The premiere took place at the studio on January 25, 1930. The film opened to the general public in the United States five days later. It is not presently available in DVD.