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The Desired Woman (1927)

The Desired Woman poster
Directed by
Michael Curtiz
Genre
drama film, silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 10m
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman is caught between two men in a romantic conflict. The silent film uses a synchronized musical score to support the drama.

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What happens

The Desired Woman is a 1927 American synchronized sound drama film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Irene Rich, William Russell and William Collier Jr. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using the Vitaphone sound-on-disc process. It is now considered to be lost. It was produced and distributed by Warner Bros. The film was based on a story by Darryl F. Zanuck, who was credited under the pseudonym Mark Canfield. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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