Scarlet Seas (1928)

Directed by

John Francis Dillon

Genre

silent film, adventure film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 10m

Rated

NR

Rating

4.0 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A sailor and a woman fall in love while facing dangers on the high seas. The film uses synchronized music and sound effects but has no spoken dialogue.

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What happens

Scarlet Seas is a surviving 1929 American synchronized sound romantic adventure film produced by Richard A. Rowland and distributed by First National Pictures. Although there is no audible dialogue, the film was released with a musical score with sound effects using the Vitaphone sound-on-disc recording process. The picture was directed by John Francis Dillon. It starred Richard Barthelmess, Betty Compson, and a teen-aged Loretta Young. The story was written by W. Scott Darling. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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