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Masked Emotions

1929 · 60 min

A creaky silent-era crime drama with synchronized sound, offering mild suspense and old-fashioned coastal atmosphere.

Overview
Set on the Maine coast, a young sloop skipper Bramdlet Dickery discovers a plot to smuggle alien Chinese into the United States. Bramdlet's younger brother Thad is enamored with daughter of the captain of the smuggling ship. A struggle over the smuggling ensues. Masked Emotions is a 1929 American sound adventure crime drama film produced and distributed by Fox Film Corporation starring George O'Brien and Nora Lane. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 1 of 3
  • earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • crime
  • family
  • betrayal
  • justice
Places
  • sea
  • small town
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
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Action5
Horror1
Humour2
Realism6
Romance3
Tension5
Darkness4
Complexity4
Emotional weight4

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Details

Genres
drama, crime
Directed by
David Butler, Kenneth Hawks
Starring
George O'Brien, Nora Lane, James Gordon, J. Farrell MacDonald, Frank Hagney, Edward Peil Sr., David Sharpe
Runtime
60 min

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