SCARLET SEAS and Richard Barthelmess at Vitaphone Varieties
"As you may have guessed by now, Scarlet Seas is a lost film — a double loss really, as it not only seems to have been an absolute corker of a film that would boast the best of both worlds of silent and sound cinema, but it’s also probably a film that [Richard] Barthelmess would have much wanted to survive long past his career and life. Given that Richard Barthelmess died in 1963, it’s disturbing to realize that chances are that as he was entering his final decade of life, the film elements for Scarlet Seas were busily destroying themselves, aided by neglect and profound lack of interest from the company that owned it."
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That’s Jeff Cohen in Vitaphone Varieties, in [...]
by Andre Soares | December 8, 2006
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Tags: Betty Compson, Classic Movies, John Francis Dillon, Richard Barthelmess, Scarlet Seas, Silent Films, Vitaphone Varieties
