Synthetic Sin

Synthetic Sin is a 1929 American comedy film directed by William A. Seiter, based on a play of the same name.[1] While filmed as a silent, it was released by Warner Bros. accompanied with a Vitaphone music soundtrack and sound effects.[2] However most of the Vitaphone discs are still lost, apart from the final reel.

Synthetic Sin
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Directed byWilliam A. Seiter
Written byThomas J. Geraghty
Tom Reed
Based onSynthetic Sin
by Fanny Hatton and Frederic Hatton
Produced byJohn McCormick
StarringColleen Moore
Antonio Moreno
Edythe Chapman
CinematographySidney Hickox
Edited byAlexander Hall
Music byNathaniel Shilkret
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures, Inc.
Release date
  • January 6, 1929 (1929-01-06)
Running time
72 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Plot

Famed playwright Donald Anthony returns home to Magnolia Gap, Virginia, and proposes to Betty Fairfax. She accepts and he offers her the lead part in his next play, but the play is a disaster. Donald tells her that she is unsuited for the role, that it requires someone with more life experience. Rather than return home defeated, Betty stays in New York, in a bad neighborhood where local gangsters adopt her as their own. When Donald comes to visit her, they eject him. There is a gunfight, and in the resulting confusion Donald sweeps in and rescues Betty. After the excitement, Betty gives up her dreams of the stage and devotes herself to Donald.

Cast

Preservation status

A copy survives at the Cineteca Italiana archive in Milan. Previously it was considered to be a lost film. Colleen Moore had deposited copies of several of her movies with the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), but it allowed the films to decompose before they could be restored.[3]

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Bibliography

  • Codori, Jeff (2012), Colleen Moore; A Biography of the Silent Film Star, McFarland Publishing,(Print ISBN 978-0-7864-4969-9, EBook ISBN 978-0-7864-8899-5).


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