Tide of Empire

Tide of Empire is a 1929 American silent Western film directed by Allan Dwan and starring Renée Adorée and Tom Keene. The film was originally slated to star Joan Crawford in the female lead, but the final filming had Renée Adorée instead of Crawford. It was one of the last MGM silents and performed badly at the box office.[1]

Tide of Empire
Directed byAllan Dwan
Written byPeter B. Kyne (novel Argonauts)
Waldemar Young (scenario)
StarringRenée Adorée
Tom Keene
CinematographyMerritt B. Gerstad
Edited byBlanche Sewell
Music byWilliam Axt (uncredited)
Production
company
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
  • April 23, 1929 (1929-04-23)
Running time
73 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguagesSilent
English intertitles

On January 12, 2010, Tide of Empire was released on home video for the first time on DVD on Warner Archive Collection.[2]

Buster Keaton, who was visiting the set, got cast in a cameo as a drunk getting thrown out of a saloon.[3]

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