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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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