The Rescue (1929)
The English adventurer Tom Lingard gets involved with islanders on a South Seas island, and he also gets involved with Lady Edith and Mr. Travers, a sailing English couple. Tom has an unexpected love affair with Edith and while they are having this affair, Lady Edith husband's boat is destroyed and he is killed.
- Date of release
- 1929-01-12
- TMDB
- 7.5 / 10 (2)
- Runtime
- 1h 36m
- Genres
- Adventure, Romance
- Director
- Herbert Brenon
Casting
- Ronald Colman — Tom Lingard
- Lili Damita — Lady Edith Travers
- Alfred Hickman — Mr. Travers
- Theodore von Eltz — Carter
- John Davidson — Hassim
- Philip Strange — D'Alacer
- Bernard Siegel — Jorgensen
- Laska Winter — Immada
Interesting facts
The Rescue is a 1929 American sound pre-Code romantic adventure film directed by Herbert Brenon, and produced by Samuel Goldwyn. 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 screenplay was written by Elizabeth Meehan, based on the 1920 novel by Joseph Conrad. The music score is by Hugo Riesenfeld. The film stars Ronald Colman and Lili Damita.
Production
Water scenes were filmed were filmed at Santa Cruz Island, with a two way radio set up to contact Goldwyn Studios.
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