Love (1927)

Directed by

John Gilbert, Edmund Goulding

Genre

drama film, silent film, romance film, melodrama

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 24m

Rated

NR

Rating

5.7 of 10 from 35 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a silent film based on Leo Tolstoy's novel Anna Karenina. It follows a tragic love story between a married woman and a military officer.

romanticdramaticmelodramatictenseemotionalhistoricalsentimental

What happens

Love is a 1927 American silent melodrama film directed by Edmund Goulding and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. A sound version of the film was released in 1928 with a synchronized musical score with sound effects. MGM made the film to capitalize on its winning romantic team of Greta Garbo and John Gilbert who had starred in the 1926 blockbuster Flesh and the Devil. Taking full advantage of the star power, a drama was scripted based on Leo Tolstoy's 1877 novel, Anna Karenina. The result was a failure for the author's purists, but it provided the public with a taste of Gilbert-Garbo eroticism that would never again be matched. The publicity campaign for the film was one of the largest up to that time, and the title was changed from the original, Heat. Director Dimitri Buchowetzki began work on Love with Garbo and Ricardo Cortez. However, producer Irving Thalberg was unhappy with the early filming, and started over by replacing Buchowetzki with Edmund Goulding, cinematographer Merritt B. Gerstad with William H. Daniels, and Cortez with Gilbert. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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