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A Woman of the Sea (1926)

A Woman of the Sea poster
Directed by
Josef von Sternberg
Genre
silent film, drama film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 15m
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A silent drama set at a coastal village. It follows a young woman caught between two men and her own desires. The film was never released and all copies were destroyed.

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What happens

A Woman of the Sea, also known by its working title Sea Gulls, is an unreleased silent film produced in 1926 by the Chaplin Film Company. It is one of only two lost Charlie Chaplin films (the other being Her Friend the Bandit), having been destroyed by Chaplin himself as a tax writeoff. The now lost film starred Edna Purviance, Raymond Bloomer, Eve Southern and Charles French, and was directed by Josef von Sternberg. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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