During the Revolution Princess Vera, though betrothed to Prince Dimitri, is attracted to the peasant Feodor.During the Revolution Princess Vera, though betrothed to Prince Dimitri, is attracted to the peasant Feodor.During the Revolution Princess Vera, though betrothed to Prince Dimitri, is attracted to the peasant Feodor.
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Charles Clary
- Red Army Officer
- (uncredited)
Gino Corrado
- White Army Officer
- (uncredited)
Malcolm Denny
- Undetermined Secondary Role
- (uncredited)
Lillian Elliott
- Landlady
- (uncredited)
John George
- Red Army Soldier
- (uncredited)
William Humphrey
- Head of the Tribunal
- (uncredited)
Viola Louie
- Undetermined Role
- (uncredited)
Ruth Miller
- Undetermined Role
- (uncredited)
Eugene Pallette
- Revolutionary
- (uncredited)
George Periolat
- Prince Nikita's Servant
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaJulia Faye replaced Jetta Goudal, who was fired after repeatedly clashing with director Cecil B. DeMille.
- Quotes
Feodor, A Volga Boatman: I love you - with the last beat of my heart.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic (2004)
- SoundtracksSong of the Volga Boatmen
By Sigmund Spaeth
Harmonized by Carl Deis, c. 1926
'the immortal song that inspired the Cecil B. DeMille motion picture production "The Volga Boatman" with William Boyd and Elinor Fair'
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DeMille's tendency to overstate is unbridled, making this a little overdrawn even for a silent epic. Every scene is an epic unto itself and staged as such. It unfolds coherently with DeMille's relentlessly chronological epic momentum, but it drags in many places for lack of editing. Boyd is definitely charismatic in the role that launched his career as a silent matinee idol. His blue eyes rivet the camera even in black-and-white. The pure idealism that he brought to bear in over 50 subsequent stints as Hopalong Cassidy radiates from his Wagnerian portrayal of this bolshevik boatman who cannot betray what he knows in his heart--the universal cowboy hero of every Saturday morning in any get-up. The electricity is there between Boyd and his soon-to-be bride in real life, Elinor Fair, as the princess-in-love-with-the-noble-peasant. Julia Faye adds needed sensuous energy with her tawdry portrayal of the Tartar peasant girl (who also lusts after Boyd, of course). All the elements of human emotion against an epic backdrop are here, and DeMille develops them all as thoroughly as the themes in any of Bach's "Two and Three-Part Inventions". Great piano score from the original cue notes, too, b/t/w.
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- $497,356 (estimated)
- Runtime2 hours
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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