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The Red Dance
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Wikipedia article
{{Infobox film
| name = The Red Dance
| image = The Red Dance film poster.jpg
| caption = Theatrical poster
| director = Raoul Walsh
| producer =
| writer = Malcolm Stuart Boylan
Eleanor Browne
| based_on =
| starring = Dolores del Ro
Charles Farrell
Ivan Linow
| music = Erno Rapee
S.L. Rothafel
| cinematography = Charles G. Clarke
Jack A. Marta
| editing = Louis R. Loeffler
| distributor = Fox Film Corporation
| released =
| runtime = 103 minutes
| country = United States
| language = Silent (English intertitles)
| budget =
| gross = $1.3 million[https://archive.org/stream/international193738quig#page/942/mode/2up/search/%22box+office%22 Quigley Publishing Company "The All Time Best Sellers"], 'International Motion Picture Almanac 1937-38' (1938) p. 942, accessed April 19, 2014
}}
'The Red Dance' (also known as 'The Red Dancer of Moscow') is a 1928 American film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Dolores del Ro and Charles Farrell that was inspired in the novel by Henry Leyford Gates. Although silent, it was released with synchronized music and sound effects.[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/R/RedDance1928.html Progressive Silent Film List: 'The Red Dance'] at silentera.com
Plot
Tasia (Dolores del Ro), a beautiful lower class dancer from Russia, falls for the heir to the throne Prince, Grand Duke Eugene (Charles Farrell), but only admires him from a distance. At the outbreak of the Russian Revolution, the Duke falls in captivity and this allows Tasia be near him.
Cast
*Dolores del Ro as Tasia
*Charles Farrell as Grand Duke Eugene
*Ivan Linow as Ivan Petroff
*Boris Charsky as An agitator
*Dorothy Revier as Princess Varvara
*Andrs de Segurola as General Tanaroff
*Demetrius Alexis as Rasputin
*Henry Armetta as Prisoner (uncredited)
*Nigel De Brulier as Bishop (uncredited)
*Soledad Jimnez as Tasia's Mother (uncredited)
*Muriel McCormac as Tasia as a child (uncredited)
*Barry Norton as Rasputin's Assassin (uncredited)
*Magda Sonja as Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Critical reception
"There is a good deal of lethargy about the opening chapters of this offering, but interest picks up in the latter passages", wrote Mordaunt Hall of 'The New York Times'. "There are some good scenes in this somewhat wild piece of work, but it is often incoherent." 'Variety' singled out Ivan Linow's performance for praise and reported that the scenes of the uprising were successful, but "otherwise there wasn't much to direct in this story except to keep it going." Oliver Claxton of 'The New Yorker' panned the film, writing, "how anybody with the slightest modicum of intelligence could fashion such a tale is beyond me....a little criticism would shoot the film so full of holes that it would resemble a Swiss cheese without the cheese. The odor, I am afraid, would still remain."
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