Melody Lane is a 1929 black and white American musical film directed by Robert F. Hill. It is an adaption to the play The Understander written by Jo Swerling.
This story follows a songwriter, Des Dupree, who joins the U.S Army in France, leaving behind his Chorus Girl Sweetheart. During his time in the Army, he falls in love with a French singer. Des is injured in action and his chorus girl eventually leaves him. His French singer can't seem to forget about him, so she follows him back to the states where the two are reunited and he is cured of his injury
The production company for this film includes Robert F. Hill as writer and director, Daniel Mandell as editor, and Joseph Brotherton as the cinematographer. Shot at Universal Studios in Universal City, California, the film was released on July 21, 1929 by Universal Pictures.
The film is now incomplete, with a 16mm copy of the last reel of the sound version, an incomplete print of the silent version (5 of the 6 reels) is also in the Library of Congress. An incomplete soundtrack (reels 1, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 8 of 8) also survives in the hands of a private collector.