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The Red Dance
(1928) United States of America
B&W : Ten reels / 9250 feet
Directed by Raoul Walsh
Cast: Charles Farrell [The Grand Duke Eugen], Dolores Del Rio [Tasia], Ivan Linow [Ivan Petroff], Boris Charsky [agitator], Dorothy Revier [Princess Varvara], Andres De Segurola [General Tanaroff], Demetrius Alexis (Dmitri Alexius) [Rasputin]
Fox Film Corporation production; distributed by Fox Film Corporation. / Scenario by James Ashmore Creelman, from the adaptation by Pierre Collings and Philip Klein [?] of the story adaptation by Eleanor Browne? of the novel The Red Dancer of Moscow by Henry Leyford Gates. Set design by Ben Carré. Song “Someday, Somewhere, We’ll Meet Again” by Lew Pollack and Erno Rapee. Assistant director, Archibald Buchanan. Cinematography by Charles Clarke and John Marta. Film editor, Louis Loeffler. Intertitles written by Malcolm Stuart Boylan. Music by S.L. Rothafel and Erno Rapee. Presented by William Fox. / © 25 June 1928 by Fox Film Corporation [LP25395]. Premiered 25 June 1928 at the Globe Theatre in New York, New York. General release, 2 December 1928. / [?] Movietone 35mm spherical 1.20:1 format and/or Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format? Western Electric Movietone sound-on-film synchronized sound system. / Silent film, with synchronized music and sound effects.
Drama: Romance.
Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F2 n. F2.4495.
Survival status: Print exists in the Museum of Modern Art film archive.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Dancers - Grigori Efimovich Rasputin - Peasants - Revolutions: Russian Revolution (1917-1921) - Royalty - Russia - Synchronized sound film
Listing updated: 4 October 2014.
References: AFI-F2 n. F2.4495; Everson-American pp. 138, 182j, 246p, 305-306, 310, 336; Shirley-Australian p. 103.
Home video: DVD.
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