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Protection (1929)

Protection poster
Directed by
Benjamin Stoloff
Genre
drama film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 02m
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman and several men are drawn into a conflict involving a gang and the law. The story follows their attempts to navigate danger and personal stakes in a pre-code setting.

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What happens

Protection is a 1929 American Synchronized sound pre-Code drama film directed by Benjamin Stoloff and written by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan. The film stars Dorothy Burgess, Robert Elliott, Paul Page, and Joe Brown. 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 film was released on May 5, 1929, by Fox Film Corporation. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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