Scarlet Seas
1928 film
- January 12, 1929 (1929-01-12)
Running time
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Scarlet Seas is a surviving[1] 1929 American synchronized sound romantic adventure film produced by Richard A. Rowland and distributed by First National Pictures. Although there is no audible dialogue, the film was released with a musical score with sound effects using the Vitaphone sound-on-disc recording process. The picture was directed by John Francis Dillon. It starred Richard Barthelmess, Betty Compson, and a teen-aged Loretta Young. Originally, the film was presumed lost.[2][3][4]
The story was written by W. Scott Darling.[5]
Cast
- Richard Barthelmess as Steven Dunkin
- Betty Compson as Rose
- Loretta Young as Margaret Barbour
- James Bradbury Sr. as Johnson
- Jack Curtis as Toomey
- Knute Erickson as Captain Barbour
uncredited
- Shorty English as Sailor
Music
The film featured a theme song entitled "Blossoms (That Bloom In the Moonlight)" which was composed by Ben Black and James Dietrich.
Critical reception
A review in Harrison's Reports found that the film contains "offenses to logic", including the nimbleness of the hero and heroine as they climb a rope ladder despite having survived days of hunger and thirst and the way the hero easily overcomes "a giant", lifts him, and throws him overboard.[5]
Preservation status
The film was long thought to be lost. A print has been discovered in Italy at Cineteca Italiana.[6]
See also
- List of early sound feature films (1926–1929)
References
- ^ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Scarlet Seas
- ^ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30, The American Film Institute, c. 1971
- ^ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Scarlet Seas
- ^ Scarlet Seas at Arne Andersen's Lost film Files: First National Pictures 1928
- ^ a b "'Scarlet Seas' (S) -- with Dick Barthelmess". Harrison's Reports. January 12, 1929. p. 6. Retrieved May 14, 2022.
- ^ see-----Library of Congress, American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Scarlet Seas.
- Scarlet Seas at IMDb
- Synopsis at AllMovie
- Scarlet Seas at silentera.com
- Lobby posters of the film: #1,...#2(Wayback)
- Southseascinema.org a website devoted to island themed films
- Surviving Vitaphone track samples: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5
- Vitaphone Soundtrack Collection
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Films directed by John Francis Dillon
- The Key to Yesterday (1914)
- His Taking Ways (uncredited) (1914)
- Cats, Cash and a Cook Book (1915)
- Curing Father (1915)
- Deserted at the Auto (1915)
- One to the Minute (1915)
- Almost a Widow (1915)
- Johnny the Barber (1915)
- Anita's Butterfly (1915)
- Two Hearts and a Thief (1915)
- Kiddus, Kids and Kiddo (1915)
- Getting in Wrong (1916)
- Some Night (1916)
- Bungling Bill's Burglar (1916)
- Walk This Way (1916)
- Paddy's Political Dream (1916)
- Igorrotes, Crocodiles, and a Hat Box (1916)
- Heaven Will Protect a Woiking Goil (1916)
- Too Much Married (1916)
- Love Dynamite and Baseballs (1916)
- More Truth Than Poetry (1916)
- Bungling Bill's Peeping Ways (1916)
- Search Me! (1916)
- The Lion Hearted Chief (1916)
- Bungling Bill, Detective (1916)
- Knocking Out Knockout Kelly (1916)
- A Mix-Up in Photos (1916)
- Slipping It Over on Father (1916)
- Bungling Bill, Doctor (1916)
- A Mixup at Rudolph's (1916)
- Chinatown Villains (1916)
- National Nuts (1916)
- When Papa Died (1916)
- Nailing on the Lid (1916)
- His Blowout (1916)
- Delinquent Bridegrooms (1916)
- The Iron Mitt (1916)
- Just for a Kid (1916)
- Hired and Fired (1916)
- A Deep Sea Liar (1916)
- For Ten Thousand Bucks (1916)
- Bungling Bill's Dress Suit (1916)
- Indiscreet Corinne (1917)
- Suds (1920)
- The Right of Way (1920)
- Blackbirds (1920)
- The Plaything of Broadway (1921)
- Children of the Night (1921)
- The Roof Tree (1921)
- Gleam O'Dawn (1922)
- The Yellow Stain (1922)
- The Cub Reporter (1922)
- Calvert's Valley (1922)
- Man Wanted (1922)
- The Broken Violin (1923)
- The Self-Made Wife (1923)
- The Huntress (1923)
- Flaming Youth (1923)
- Lilies of the Field (1924)
- The Perfect Flapper (1924)
- Flirting with Love (1924)
- If I Marry Again (1925)
- One Way Street (1925)
- Chickie (1925)
- The Half-Way Girl (1925)
- We Moderns (1925)
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- Midnight Lovers (1926)
- Love's Blindness (1926)
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- Smile, Brother, Smile (1927)
- The Crystal Cup (1927)
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- Careers (1929)
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- Sally (1929)
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- Bride of the Regiment (1930)
- The Girl of the Golden West (1930)
- One Night at Susie's (1930)
- Kismet (1930)
- Millie (1931)
- The Finger Points (1931)
- The Reckless Hour (1931)
- The Pagan Lady (1931)
- Behind the Mask (1932)
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- Man About Town (1932)
- Call Her Savage (1932)
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