The River (1929)

Directed by

Frank Borzage

Genre

drama film, silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 24m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 18 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young woman from a troubled home falls in love with a man who works on a river barge. They face obstacles from her violent father and his dangerous job.

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What happens

The River is a 1928 sound part-talkie drama film directed by Frank Borzage, and starring Charles Farrell and Mary Duncan. 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 Movietone sound-on-film system. A reconstructed version with the about 55 minutes of surviving film, using still images and explanatory titlecards to bridge the missing scenes, was produced by the Munich Filmmuseum, in collaboration with the cinémathèques of Switzerland and Luxembourg. This version was screened in 2006 by the American Museum of the Moving Image in New York City. Borzage also directed Farrell, opposite Janet Gaynor, in Seventh Heaven (1927), Street Angel (1928), and Lucky Star (1929) during this period. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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