Synthetic Sin (1929)
If you had to be bad...could you make good?
A young woman impulsively marries a young playwright who whisks her away to New York promises her a role in his next production. Unfortunately the production is a disaster and her husband proclaims her unfit for the role. Rather then return home in defeat, she stays in New York and accidentally gets involved with some vicious gangsters.
- Date of release
- 1929-01-06
- TMDB
- 10.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 1h 12m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Director
- William A. Seiter
Casting
- Colleen Moore — Betty Fairfax
- Antonio Moreno — Donald Anthony
- Edythe Chapman — Mrs. Fairfax
- Kathryn McGuire — Margery, Betty's sister
- Gertrude Howard — Cassie / de: Mandy
- Gertrude Astor — Sheila Kelly
- Ray Turner — Sam
- Montagu Love — Brandy Mulane
- Ben Hendricks Jr. — Frank
- Philip Sleeman — Tony
- Dick Gordon — Member of Frank's Gang
Interesting facts
Synthetic Sin is a 1929 American Synchronized sound comedy film directed by William A. Seiter, based on a play of the same name. 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. It was released by Warner Bros. Pictures and was recorded using the Vitaphone sound system. Only the soundtrack disc for the last reel is known to survive.
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