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Tide of Empire (1929)

Tide of Empire poster
Directed by
Allan Dwan
Genre
drama film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 13m
Rating
6.3 of 10 from 9 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A western about a man and a woman caught in a conflict. The film uses synchronized music and sound effects but no spoken dialogue.

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What happens

Tide of Empire is a 1929 American synchronized sound Western film directed by Allan Dwan and starring Renée Adorée and Tom Keene. 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. On January 12, 2010, Tide of Empire was released on home video for the first time on DVD on Warner Archive Collection. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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