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Torrent

192687 minUnited States
RomanceDrama

Synopsis

Prevented from marrying Rafael by his domineering mother, Leonora leaves her Spanish town and becomes an opera singer in Paris. When she returns, a flood brings them together again, but Rafael is engaged to someone else. Professional success has changed Leonora's circumstances without resolving the attachments and class barriers she left behind.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
87:46
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No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

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Wikimedia Commons · Monta Bell · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsMonta Bell

Historical context

Torrent was Greta Garbo's first American film. The adaptation of Vicente Blasco Ibáñez's fiction gave MGM an early opportunity to introduce her screen presence to audiences beyond her European work.

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