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Man, Woman and Wife (1928)

Man, Woman and Wife poster
Directed by
Edward Laemmle
Genre
drama film, silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 10m
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man is torn between his wife and another woman. The film uses synchronized music and sound effects to tell the story without spoken dialogue.

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What happens

Man, Woman and Wife is a 1929 American sound drama film directed by Edward Laemmle and starring Norman Kerry, Pauline Starke and Marian Nixon. 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. It was based on a short story called Fallen Angels, and the film was also sometimes known by this title. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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