Marriage by Contract (1928)

Directed by

James Flood

Genre

drama film, silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 10m

Rating

10.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young woman enters into a marriage arranged for legal or financial reasons rather than love. The film explores tensions between duty and personal desire in a romance drama.

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What happens

Marriage by Contract is a 1928 American sound part-talkie drama film directed by James Flood and starring Patsy Ruth Miller, Lawrence Gray and Robert Edeson. In addition to sequences with audible dialogue or talking sequences, the film features a synchronized musical score and sound effects along with English intertitles. The soundtrack was recorded using the Tiffany-Tone sound-on-film system. This film was one of the first sound films produced by Tiffany Pictures, one of the largest independent studios in Hollywood at the time, and was followed by Lucky Boy. The first reel of the silent version is extant at the Australian Archive. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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