Evangeline

Evangeline (1929)

Hear Dolores Sing Al Jolson's Song of Love!

A young Acadian woman spends years searching for her lost love after the two are separated and forcibly relocated by the British.

Date of release
1929-08-24
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (8)
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Drama
Director
Edwin Carewe

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: Evangeline

Evangeline is a 1929 American synchronized sound drama film directed by Edwin Carewe and starring Dolores del Río. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process. The film was based on a Arthur Hopkins produced play that made it to Broadway in 1913. It is the last film version of the 1847 poem of the same name by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that did not include any dialogue.

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