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The Red Mill

192770 minUnited States
ComedyDrama

Synopsis

An overworked servant at a Dutch tavern falls for a visiting traveller and enters an ice-skating contest to win his attention. Her employer frustrates the encounter, and the visitor later becomes interested in another woman. Secret messages, an unwanted marriage and a meeting at an old mill draw the servant into a fresh opportunity to change her fortunes.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
73:43
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No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

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Wikimedia Commons · Roscoe Arbuckle; https://archive.org/details/the-red-mill-1927-by-roscoe-arbuckle https://yts.mx/movies/the-red-mill-1927 · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsRoscoe Arbuckle

Behind the scenes

Roscoe Arbuckle directed Marion Davies under the name William Goodrich. Although acquitted after the Virginia Rappe trials, Arbuckle struggled to work openly in Hollywood. The film adapts material from the 1906 musical by Victor Herbert and Henry Blossom.

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