The River (1929 film)

1929 film

The River

Directed by| Frank Borzage
Written by| John Hunter Booth
Tristram Tupper (novel)
Dwight Cummins
Philip Klein
Produced by| William Fox
Starring| Charles Farrell
Mary Duncan
Cinematography| Ernest Palmer
Edited by| Barney Wolf
Music by| Maurice Baron
Distributed by| Fox Film Corporation

Release date

* October 6, 1929 (1929-10-06)

Running time

| 84 min.
Country| United States
Languages| Sound (Part-Talkie)
English Intertitles

The River is a 1929 sound part-talkie drama film directed by Frank Borzage, and starring Charles Farrell and Mary Duncan. In addition to sequences with audible dialogue or talking sequences, the film features a synchronized musical score and sound effects along with English intertitles. The soundtrack was recorded using the Movietone sound-on-film system. Much of the film has been lost.[1] A reconstructed version with the about 45 minutes of surviving film, using still images and explanatory titlecards to bridge the missing scenes, was produced by the Munich Filmmuseum, in collaboration with the cinémathèques of Switzerland and Luxembourg.[2] This version was screened in 2006 by the American Museum of the Moving Image in New York City. Borzage also directed Farrell, opposite Janet Gaynor, in Seventh Heaven (1927), Street Angel (1928), and Lucky Star (1929) during this period.

## Plot

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Allen John Pender is an innocent young man who wishes to go to the sea on the boat he has built. He falls in love with jaded Rosalee, the former mistress of a man now in jail for murder.

## Cast

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* Charles Farrell as Allen John Spender
* Mary Duncan as Rosalee
* Ivan Linow as Sam Thompson
* Margaret Mann as Widow Thompson
* Alfred Sabato as Marsdon
* Bert Woodruff as The Miller

## Music

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The film features a theme song entitled "I Found Happiness (When I Found You)" with music by Erno Rapee and lyrics by Lew Pollack.

## Reception

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Revue du Cinema critic Jean George Auriol described The River as "undoubtedly the most lyrical love film ever made."[3]

## See also

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* List of early sound feature films (1926–1929)
* List of incomplete or partially lost films

## References

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1. ^ Richardson, M. (2006) Surrealism and cinema, Berg Publishers, p66
2. ^ "Global Discoveries on DVD: Summer Inventory (with some updates)" by Jonathan Rosenbaum, Cinema Scope. Accessed December 13, 2010
3. ^ Hervé Dumont (2006) Frank Borzage: the life and films of a Hollywood romantic, McFarland DNA translator

## External links

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* The River at IMDb
* The River at AllMovie
* The River at the TCM Movie Database

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Films directed by Frank Borzage

* That Gal of Burke's (1916)
* Flying Colors (1917)
* Society for Sale (1918)
* Prudence on Broadway (1919)
* Humoresque (1920)
* The Duke of Chimney Butte (1921)
* Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford (1921)
* Billy Jim (1922)
* The Pride of Palomar (1922)
* The Age of Desire (1923)
* Children of Dust (1923)
* Secrets (1924)
* The Lady (1925)
* Daddy's Gone A-Hunting (1925)
* Lazybones (1925)
* The Circle (1925)
* Marriage License? (1926)
* The Dixie Merchant (1926)
* Early to Wed (1926)
* 7th Heaven (1927)
* Street Angel (1928)
* Lucky Star (1929)
* They Had to See Paris (1929)
* The River (1929)
* Liliom (1930)
* Song o' My Heart (1930)
* Doctors' Wives (1931)
* Bad Girl (1931)
* After Tomorrow (1931)
* Young as You Feel (1931)
* Young America (1932)
* A Farewell to Arms (1932)
* Secrets (1933)
* Man's Castle (1933)
* No Greater Glory (1934)
* Little Man, What Now? (1934)
* Flirtation Walk (1934)
* Living on Velvet (1935)
* Stranded (1935)
* Shipmates Forever (1935)
* Desire (1936)
* Hearts Divided (1936)
* Green Light (1937)
* History Is Made at Night (1937)
* Big City (1937)
* Mannequin (1937)
* Three Comrades (1938)
* The Shining Hour (1938)
* Disputed Passage (1939)
* Strange Cargo (1940)
* The Mortal Storm (1940)
* Flight Command (1940)
* Smilin' Through (1941)
* The Vanishing Virginian (1942)
* Stage Door Canteen (1943)
* His Butler's Sister (1943)
* Till We Meet Again (1944)
* The Spanish Main (1945)
* Magnificent Doll (1946)
* I've Always Loved You (1946)
* That's My Man (1947)
* Moonrise (1948)
* China Doll (1958)
* The Big Fisherman (1959)
* Journey Beneath the Desert (1961)

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