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Anna Christie

192396 minUnited States
Drama

Synopsis

Anna reunites with the barge-captain father she has barely known and joins him on a voyage. A romance with sailor Matt Burke offers a possible new beginning, but her father's protective ambitions and the men's judgments threaten it when she reveals her past. Blanche Sweet plays a woman trying to decide how much of her life others are entitled to condemn.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
87:12
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No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

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Wikimedia Commons · John Griffith Wray · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsJohn Griffith Wray

Inspirations

Eugene O'Neill's play reached the screen here as a silent film, several years before the sound adaptation starring Greta Garbo. Bradley King adapted the drama for producer Thomas H. Ince.

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