The Masks of the Devil (1928)

Directed by

Victor Sjöström

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 20m

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A synchronized sound film from 1928 that tells a dramatic story. It follows characters navigating romantic and personal conflicts in a stylized silent-era manner.

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What happens

The Masks of the Devil is a lost 1928 American drama synchronized sound film directed by Victor Sjöström and written by Marian Ainslee, Ruth Cummings, Svend Gade, and Frances Marion. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process. The film stars John Gilbert, Alma Rubens, Theodore Roberts, Frank Reicher, and Eva von Berne. The film was released on November 17, 1928, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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