The Rescue is a 1929 American sound pre-Code romantic adventure film directed by Herbert Brenon, and produced by Samuel Goldwyn. 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. The screenplay was written by Elizabeth Meehan, based on the 1920 novel by Joseph Conrad. The music score is by Hugo Riesenfeld. The film stars Ronald Colman and Lili Damita.Progressive Silent Film List: The Rescue at silentera.com
Cast Ronald Colman as Tom Lingard Lili Damita as Lady Edith Travers Alfred Hickman as Mr. Travers Theodore von Eltz as Carter John Davidson as Hassim Philip Strange as D'Alacer Bernard Siegel as Jorgensen Sōjin Kamiyama as Daman Harry Cording as Belarab Laska Winter as Immada Duke Kahanamoku as Jaffir Louis Morrison as Shaw George Regas as Wasub Chrispin Martin as Tenga
Production Water scenes were filmed were filmed at Santa Cruz Island, with a two way radio set up to contact Goldwyn Studios.
Music The musical score featured in the film was composed by Hugo Riesenfeld.
Censorship When The Rescue was released, each province in Canada had a censor board that could order eliminations or cuts in the film. The Montreal censor board required the intertitles to be rewritten so that Lady Edith was the sister of Mr. Travers and not his wife, causing some confusion in the plot.
Preservation An incomplete print, missing one reel, is in the collection of the George Eastman House film archive.
See also List of early sound feature films (1926–1929)
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Poster at www.gettyimages.com Still at www.silentfilmstillarchive.com