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Rinty of the Desert (1928)

Rinty of the Desert poster
Directed by
D. Ross Lederman
Genre
drama film, silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
54 min
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A drama set in the desert. It tells a story using visuals and music since there is no spoken dialogue.

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What happens

Rinty of the Desert is a 1928 American synchronized sound drama film directed by D. Ross Lederman. 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. This film is presumed to be lost. According to Warner Bros records, the film earned $164,000 domestically and $57,000 foreign. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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