THE RIVER (1929) Charles Farrell & Mary Duncan | Drama, Romance | B&W | Golden Age Film

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The River is a 1929 sound part-talkie drama film directed by Frank Borzage, and starring Charles Farrell and Mary Duncan. In addition to sequences with audible dialogue or talking sequences, the film features a synchronized musical score and sound effects along with English intertitles. The soundtrack was recorded using the Movietone sound-on-film system. Much of the film has been lost. A reconstructed version with the about 45 minutes of surviving film, using still images and explanatory titlecards to bridge the missing scenes, was produced by the Munich Filmmuseum, in collaboration with the cinémathèques of Switzerland and Luxembourg. This version was screened in 2006 by the American Museum of the Moving Image in New York City. Borzage also directed Farrell, opposite Janet Gaynor, in Seventh Heaven (1927), Street Angel (1928), and Lucky Star (1929) during this period.

Synopsis

Allen John Pender is an innocent young man who wishes to go to the sea on the boat he has built. He falls in love with jaded Rosalee, the former mistress of a man now in jail for murder.

Cast & Crew

Charles Farrell as Allen John Spender
Mary Duncan as Rosalee
Ivan Linow as Sam Thompson
Margaret Mann as Widow Thompson
Alfred Sabato as Marsdon
Bert Woodruff as The Miller

Directed by: Frank Borzage
Written by: John Hunter Booth, Tristram Tupper (novel), Dwight Cummins, Philip Klein
Produced by: William Fox
Cinematography: Ernest Palmer
Edited by: Barney Wolf
Music by: Maurice Baron
Distributed by: Fox Film Corporation
Release date: October 6, 1929
Running time: 84 minutes
Country: United States
Languages: Sound (Part-Talkie), English Intertitles