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7.4/10   114 votes
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Director:
Writers:
John Hunter Booth (dialogue)
Dwight Cummins (writer)
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Release Date:
6 October 1929 (USA) more
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Cast

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Charles Farrell ... Allen John Spender
Mary Duncan ... Rosalee
Ivan Linow ... Sam Thompson
Margaret Mann ... Widow Thompson
Alfred Sabato ... Marsdon (as Alverdo Sabato)
Bert Woodruff ... The Miller
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Backwash (USA) (alternative title)
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Runtime:
73 min
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Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System) (talking sequences) | Silent

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8 out of 9 people found the following comment useful.
incomplete but atmospheric, 25 November 2001
7/10
Author: mike n from boston, massachusetts

I saw this movie several years ago at the Harvard Film Archives. Apparently, the beginning and end of the movie are extinct, and all that remains is a long romantic sequence involving Farrell & Duncan. We couldn't tell how the romance started, or how it was supposed to end. It was nevertheless quite interesting, with an erotic charge similar to that in Borzage's "Man's Castle".

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