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The Love Mart (1927)

The Love Mart poster
Directed by
George Fitzmaurice
Genre
drama film, silent film, romance film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 20m
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman is sold into a marriage she does not want. A man tries to rescue her from this fate.

silent-eraold-fashionedmelodramaticbittersweetdramaticsentimentalromantic

What happens

The Love Mart is a 1927 American silent drama film directed by George Fitzmaurice starring Billie Dove, Gilbert Roland and Noah Beery, and featuring Boris Karloff. The script was adapted from a novel called "The Code of Victor Jallot" by Edward Childs Carpenter. It was released in some foreign countries as Slavinnan. The film is considered lost. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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