Through the Breakers


55m 1928

Film Details

Genre
Adaptation
Release Date
Jan 1928
Premiere Information
License: New York State; c18 Oct 1928
Production Company
Gotham Productions
Distribution Company
Lumas Film Corp.
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the novel Through the Breakers; a Melodrama by Owen Davis (c1898).

Technical Specs

Duration
55m
Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Theatrical Aspect Ratio
1.33 : 1
Film Length
5,035ft (6 reels)

Synopsis

Diane Garrett, a beautiful London socialite, promises John Lancaster that she will join him in a year's time to be married on the South Seas island where he is to be a plantation manager for the British Trading Co. Time passes, and Diane refuses to leave the gay life; she embarks on an ocean voyage, however, and the liner on which she is traveling is wrecked off John's island. Diane is washed ashore on a spar and is soon using her feminine wiles to make John forgive her for not coming to him of her own volition. Taya, an island girl who loves John, is killed by her native lover, who then places her body in a canoe and paddles out to his own death in the open sea. Sobered by this example of Liebestod, Diane decides that her proper place in life is in John's arms.

Film Details

Genre
Adaptation
Release Date
Jan 1928
Premiere Information
License: New York State; c18 Oct 1928
Production Company
Gotham Productions
Distribution Company
Lumas Film Corp.
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the novel Through the Breakers; a Melodrama by Owen Davis (c1898).

Technical Specs

Duration
55m
Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Theatrical Aspect Ratio
1.33 : 1
Film Length
5,035ft (6 reels)

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