Sensation Seekers

19271927
1h 10m

IMDb RATING

5.8/10

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Billie Dove and Huntley Gordon in Sensation Seekers (1927)

Drama

Romance

Sensation Seekers is a 1927 silent film romantic drama directed by Lois Weber, produced and distributed by Universal Pictures and starring Billie Dove. The film and a trailer survive.Sensation Seekers is a 1927 silent film romantic drama directed by Lois Weber, produced and distributed by Universal Pictures and starring Billie Dove. The film and a trailer survive.Sensation Seekers is a 1927 silent film romantic drama directed by Lois Weber, produced and distributed by Universal Pictures and starring Billie Dove. The film and a trailer survive.

IMDb RATING

5.8/10

YOUR RATING

Director
- Lois Weber
Writers
- Ernest Pascal(story "Egypt")
- Lois Weber
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Raymond Bloomer, Frances Dale, Billie Dove, Huntley Gordon, Peggy Montgomery, and Blackie Thompson in Sensation Seekers (1927)

Frances Dale, Billie Dove, Fanchon Frankel, Huntley Gordon, Lillian Lawrence, Peggy Montgomery, and Phillips Smalley in Sensation Seekers (1927)

Raymond Bloomer, Frances Dale, Billie Dove, Fanchon Frankel, Huntley Gordon, Hazel Howell, Lillian Lawrence, Peggy Montgomery, and Blackie Thompson in Sensation Seekers (1927)

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A print of this film is held by the UCLA Film and Television Archives.

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4/10

Overly simplistic and moralistic...but I liked the shipwreck scene near the end.

"Sensation Seekers" could have been a good film. Instead, it looks a bit like a Sunday School lesson written by someone on drugs! It's highly moralistic and filled with folks running amok in a little town...while a few decent people go to church and act pious. One of the wild ones is Egypt and she's played by Billie Dove and the nice new preacher tries to help her...but ultimately she runs off with a weasel and they pay the price for their not niceness and nearly die to prove that goodness is swell and skankiness isn't.

The film seemed preachy but confusing in its message. Plus the minister's relationship with Egypt never really made a lot of sense. What DID work was the finale...which was grand. The film features a harrowing shipwreck and Dove apparently gave it her all and looked almost like she was being drowned for real! Not a great film...but a great ending.

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