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  Ronald Colman.
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The Rescue
(1929) United States of America
B&W : Eight reels / 7980 feet
Directed by Herbert Brenon

Cast: Ronald Colman [Tom Lingard], Lily Damita [Lady Edith Travers], Alfred Hickman [Mr. Travers], Theodore von Eltz [Carter], John Davidson [Hassim], Philip Strange [D’Alacer], Bernard Siegel [Jorgensen], Sojin Kamiyama [Daman], Harry Cording [Belarab], Laska Winter [Immada], Duke Kahanamoku [Jaffir], Louis Morrison [Shaw], George Regas [Wasub], Christopher Martin (Chris-Pin Martin) [Tenga], Steve Clemente [an islander], Joe Dominguez [an islander], Nick Shaid [an islander]

Samuel Goldwyn, Incorporated, production; distributed by United Artists Corporation [A Herbert Brenon Production]. / Produced by Samuel Goldwyn. Scenario by Elizabeth Meehan, from the novel The Rescue by Joseph Conrad. Art direction by William Cameron Menzies. Assistant director, Ray Lissner. Cinematography by George S. Barnes. Film editors, Marie Halvey, Katharine Hilliker and H.H. Caldwell. Intertitles written by Katharine Hilliker and H.H. Caldwell. Music score by Hugo Riesenfeld. Presented by Samuel Goldwyn. / Premiered 13 January 1929 at Rialto Theatre in New York, New York. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Length was 7910 feet (silent) or 7980 feet (sound). Colman’s last silent film. A partial print of the film was recovered in Kansas City, Kansas, in 1978 but it completely decomposed before restoration efforts could be made. [?] Balio-UA p. ? lists the release date as 12 January 1929. / Silent film, with synchronized music and sound effects.

Drama.

Survival status: Print exists (missing one reel) in the George Eastman Museum film archive [incomplete].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Synchronized sound film

Listing updated: 20 January 2023.

References: Balio-UA p. ?; Quirk-Colman pp. 7, 17, 119, 120, 121; Smith-Colman pp. 36, 89-91, 302 : Website-IMDb : with additional information provided by Philip Carli.

 
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