His Captive Woman (1929)

Directed by

George Fitzmaurice

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 20m

Rated

NR

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman and a man navigate a relationship that leads to a court case. The story involves love and legal drama from the silent film era.

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What happens

His Captive Woman is a 1929 American sound part-talkie part-talking drama film directed by George Fitzmaurice and starring Milton Sills and Dorothy Mackaill. In addition to sequences with audible dialogue or talking sequences, the film features a synchronized musical score and sound effects along with English intertitles. According to the film review in Variety, 50 percent of the total running time featured dialogue. These talking sequences all took place during the courtroom scenes in the picture. The soundtrack was recorded using the Vitaphone sound-on-disc system. This film is "based on the short story "Changeling" by Donn Byrne in Changeling and Other Stories (New York, 1923)." It was produced and distributed by First National Pictures which was already a subsidiary of the Warner Brothers studios. Both Mackaill and Sills as well as director Fitzmaurice had worked together on the previous year's The Barker. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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