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The Three Passions (1929)

The Three Passions poster
Directed by
Rex Ingram
Genre
drama film, silent film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 10m
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 6 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man is torn between his love for a woman and his loyalty to his family. The story unfolds in a wealthy European setting and deals with personal sacrifice and emotional conflict.

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What happens

The Three Passions is a 1928 British sound drama film directed by Rex Ingram and starring Alice Terry, Iván Petrovich and Shayle Gardner. 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 made as a quota film for Allied Artists and was based on a novel by Cosmo Hamilton. It was filmed on the French Riviera. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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