Outcast (1928)

Directed by

William A. Seiter

Genre

drama film, silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 20m

Rated

NR

Rating

10.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman is cast out by society and must find her way. The story follows her struggles and relationships. This silent film uses synchronized music and sound effects to tell its drama.

melancholicdateddramaticstylizedemotionalromanticquietperiod-piece

What happens

Outcast is a 1928 American synchronized sound drama film produced and distributed by First National Pictures. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using the sound-on-disc Vitaphone process. It was directed by William A. Seiter and stars Corinne Griffith, often considered one of the most beautiful women in film. This story had been filmed in 1917 as The World and the Woman with Jeanne Eagels. In 1922 a Paramount film of the same name with Elsie Ferguson reprising her stage role was released. Both films were based on a 1914 play, Outcast, by Hubert Henry Davies which starred Ferguson. The Seiter/Griffith film was an all silent with Vitaphone music and sound effects. In the sound era the story was filmed once again as The Girl from 10th Avenue starring Bette Davis. According to the Library of Congress database shows a print surviving complete at Cineteca Italiana in Milan. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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