Scarlet Seas

1928 film

Scarlet Seas

Film poster

Directed by| John Francis Dillon
Written by| Bradley King (scenario)
Louis Stevens (intertitles)
Story by| W. Scott Darling
Produced by| Richard A. Rowland
Starring| Richard Barthelmess
Betty Compson
Loretta Young
Cinematography| Sol Polito
Frank Bangs (still photography)
Edited by| Jack Gardner
Edward Schroeder
Music by| Karl Hajos

Production
company

First National Pictures

Distributed by| Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.

Release date

* January 12, 1929 (1929-01-12)

Running time

| 7 reels (6,337 feet)
Country| United States
Languages| Sound (Synchronized)
(English Intertitles)

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. The film was formerly presumed lost.[2][3][4]

The story was written by W. Scott Darling.[5]

## Cast

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* 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

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The film featured a theme song entitled "Blossoms (That Bloom In the Moonlight)" which was composed by Ben Black and James Dietrich.

## Critical reception

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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

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The film was long thought to be lost. A print has been discovered in Italy at Cineteca Italiana.[6]

## See also

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* List of early sound feature films (1926–1929)

## References

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1. ^ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Scarlet Seas
2. ^ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30, The American Film Institute, c. 1971
3. ^ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Scarlet Seas
4. ^ Scarlet Seas at Arne Andersen's Lost film Files: First National Pictures 1928
5. ^ a b "'Scarlet Seas' (S) -- with Dick Barthelmess". Harrison's Reports. January 12, 1929. p. 6. Retrieved May 14, 2022.
6. ^ see
--Library of Congress, American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog

## External links

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Scarlet Seas.

* Scarlet Seas at IMDb
* Scarlet Seas at silentera.com
* Lobby posters of the film: #1,...#2(Wayback)
* Southseascinema.org a website devoted to island themed films
* Vitaphone Soundtrack Collection

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