The Whip Woman | |
Director: | Joseph C. Boyle |
Producer: | Allan Dwan Robert Kane |
Starring: | Estelle Taylor Hedda Hopper Antonio Moreno Lowell Sherman Loretta Young |
Cinematography: | Ernest Haller |
Editing: | Terrell Morse (aka Terry O. Morse) |
Distributor: | First National Pictures |
Runtime: | 60 minutes |
Country: | United States |
Language: | Silent..English intertitles |
The Whip Woman is a lost[1] [2] 1928 silent film produced and distributed by First National Pictures and directed by Joseph C. Boyle. The film starred Estelle Taylor, Antonio Moreno, Hedda Hopper and Lowell Sherman. Supporting actors including fifteen-year-old Loretta Young.[3]
Sari (Estelle Taylor), the titular whip-wielding woman, is a Hungarian peasant who intervenes to prevent Count Michael Ferrenzi (Antonio Moreno) from committing suicide. The grateful Count wants to marry Sari, but his aristocratic mother (Hedda Hopper) tries to stop their wedding. Sari and the Count are eventually wed despite the circumstances.[3]