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Caught in the Fog (1928)

Caught in the Fog poster
Directed by
Howard Bretherton
Genre
thriller film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 10m
Rated
NR
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A thriller set in a foggy port where a woman gets entangled with smugglers and a mysterious stranger. She must navigate danger and deception to survive.

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What happens

Caught in the Fog is a 1928 American sound part-talkie thriller film directed by Howard Bretherton and written by Charles R. Condon and Joseph Jackson. In addition to sequences with audible dialogue or talking sequences, the film features a synchronized musical score and sound effects along with English intertitles. According to the film review in Variety, between twenty and twenty-four minutes of the total running time (divided into four separate talking sequences) featured dialogue. The soundtrack was recorded using the Vitaphone sound-on-disc system. The film stars May McAvoy, Conrad Nagel and Mack Swain, and features Hugh Herbert, Charles K. Gerrard and Émile Chautard. The film was released by Warner Bros. Pictures on August 25, 1928. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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