| Scarlet Seas | |
| Director: | John Francis Dillon |
| Producer: | Richard A. Rowland |
| Story: | W. Scott Darling |
| Starring: | Richard Barthelmess Betty Compson Loretta Young |
| Music: | Karl Hajos |
| Cinematography: | Sol Polito Frank Bangs (still photography) |
| Editing: | Jack Gardner Edward Schroeder |
| Studio: | First National Pictures |
| Distributor: | Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. |
| Runtime: | 7 reels (6,337 feet) |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | Sound (Synchronized) (English Intertitles) |
Scarlet Seas is a surviving[1] 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. Originally, the film was presumed lost.[2] [3] [4]
The story was written by W. Scott Darling.
uncredited
The film featured a theme song entitled "Blossoms (That Bloom In the Moonlight)" which was composed by Ben Black and James Dietrich.
A review in Harrison's Reports found that the film contains "offenses to logic", including the nimbleness of the hero and heroine as they climb a rope ladder despite having survived days of hunger and thirst and the way the hero easily overcomes "a giant", lifts him, and throws him overboard.[5]
The film was long thought to be lost. A print has been discovered in Italy at Cineteca Italiana.[6]
