Movie
1928
The Wind is a 1928 American synchronized sound romantic drama film directed by Victor Sjöström. 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 movie was adapted by Frances Marion from the 1925 novel of the same name written by Dorothy Scarborough. Featuring Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson and Montagu…
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Among the many films throughout the history of cinema that suffered from the misfortune of being released in the worst possible time, a very special place belongs to Victor Sjöström’s *The Wind*, a silent Western melodrama released in 1928. If this film had arrived just one year earlier, in the halcyon days immediately preceding the dawn of sound, it would likely have been hailed as a masterpiece of the silent era,…More
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