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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 1299

River of Romance

192978 minUnited States

Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: English
This copy runs: 78:00
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

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Wikimedia Commons · Paramount Pictures · Public domain

Synopsis

Raised by Quaker relatives, Tom Rumsford refuses a duel when he returns to his family's Mississippi estate. Rejected by his father, he leaves and later reappears with a formidable reputation that changes how his former community sees him.

Cast

Charles "Buddy" Rogers

Mary Brian

June Collyer

Henry B. Walthall

Wallace Beery

Fred Kohler

DirectorsRichard Wallace

Inspirations

Booth Tarkington's play Magnolia supplied the story. The film places its conflict between reputation and conviction in the American South of the 1830s.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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Availability checked on September 16, 2026.

Photograph credit

Photographs cropped, resized and optimized as WebP, displayed in monochrome.

Charles "Buddy" Rogers — Eugene Robert Richee · Public domain
Mary Brian — Caras y Caretas · Public domain
June Collyer — unknown (Tiffany Productions); http://www.doctormacro.com/movie%20star%20pages/Collyer,%20June.htm · Public domain
Henry B. Walthall — Tower Magazines, Inc., photographer unknown · Public domain
Wallace Beery — MGM studio photographer · Public domain
Fred Kohler — Unknown author; ebay · Public domain

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