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Old Loves and New (1926)

Old Loves and New poster
Directed by
Maurice Tourneur
Genre
silent film, adventure film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 20m
Rating
4.0 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A desert romance story about two people who fall in love in a dramatic exotic setting. The film follows typical plot conventions of the genre.

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What happens

Old Loves and New is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by Maurice Tourneur in one of his final American films. The setting and story are completely typical of the desert-romance genre novelist Edith Maude Hull invented and specialized in. This film is now lost. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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