Scarlet Seas (1928)
A sea captain comes to rescue of a prostitute in Shanghai, who is being run out of town. He takes her aboard his ship and heads out to sea. Not long afterwards the ship sinks but the pair manage to get into a lifeboat before it goes under. They are later picked up by a passing ship, but it turns out that the crew had just mutinied against their captain and taken over the ship.
- Date of release
- 1928-01-12
- TMDB
- 4.0 / 10 (4)
- Runtime
- 1h 10m
- Genres
- Romance, Drama
- Director
- John Francis Dillon
Casting
- Richard Barthelmess — Steven Dunkin
- Betty Compson — Rose
- Loretta Young — Margaret Barbour
- James Bradbury Sr. — Johnson
- Jack Curtis — Toomey
- Knute Erickson — Captain Barbour
Interesting facts
Scarlet Seas is a surviving 1929 American synchronized sound romantic adventure film produced by Richard A. Rowland and distributed by First National Pictures. Although there is no audible dialogue, the film was released with a musical score with sound effects using the Vitaphone sound-on-disc recording process. The picture was directed by John Francis Dillon. It starred Richard Barthelmess, Betty Compson, and a teen-aged Loretta Young.
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