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The Red Dance (also known as The Red Dancer of Moscow) is a 1928 American film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Dolores del Río and Charles Farrell that was inspired in the novel by Henry Leyford Gates. Although silent, it was released with synchronized music and sound effects.[3]

The Red Dance
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Directed by	Raoul Walsh
Written by	Malcolm Stuart Boylan Eleanor Browne
Based on	The Red Dancer of Moscow by Henry Leyford Gates
Starring	Dolores del Río Charles Farrell Ivan Linow
Cinematography	Charles G. Clarke Jack A. Marta
Edited by	Louis R. Loeffler
Music by	Erno Rapee S.L. Rothafel
Distributed by	Fox Film Corporation
Release date	June 25, 1928 (1928-06-25)[1]
Running time	103 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)
Box office	$1.3 million[2]

Plot

Tasia (Dolores del Río), 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 Río as Tasia
• Charles Farrell as Grand Duke Eugene
• Ivan Linow as Ivan Petroff
• Boris Charsky as An agitator
• Dorothy Revier as Princess Varvara
• Andrés de Segurola as General Tanaroff
• Demetrius Alexis as Rasputin
• Henry Armetta as Prisoner (uncredited)
• Nigel De Brulier as Bishop (uncredited)
• Soledad Jiménez 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."[4] 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."[5] 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."[6]

References

External links

• The Red Dance at IMDb
• Synopsis at AllMovie
• Lobby poster
• Stills at silenthollywood.com

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