Wild Orchids (1929)

Directed by

Sidney Franklin

Genre

drama film, silent film, melodrama

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 42m

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 18 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A wealthy British couple travels to Java, where the wife finds herself drawn to a mysterious Javanese prince. This leads to tension and jealousy between the three.

tensemelancholicvisually lushslow-burnromanticexoticdramaticsomber

What happens

Wild Orchids is a 1929 American synchronized sound drama film from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer directed by Sidney Franklin and starring Greta Garbo, Lewis Stone and Nils Asther. Only these three stars received cast credit. 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. The plot is very similar to Garbo's later sound film, The Painted Veil (1934). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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