Tide of Empire is a 1929 American silent Western film directed by Allan Dwan and starring Renée Adorée and Tom Keene. The film was originally slated to star Joan Crawford in the female lead, but the final filming had Renée Adorée instead of Crawford. It was one of the last MGM silents and performed badly at the box office.[1]
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Directed by | Allan Dwan |
Written by | Peter B. Kyne (novel Argonauts) Waldemar Young (scenario) |
Starring | Renée Adorée Tom Keene |
Cinematography | Merritt B. Gerstad |
Edited by | Blanche Sewell |
Music by | William Axt (uncredited) |
Production company | Cosmopolitan Productions |
Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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Running time | 73 minutes |
Country | United States |
Languages | Silent English intertitles |
On January 12, 2010, Tide of Empire was released on home video for the first time on DVD on Warner Archive Collection.[2]
Buster Keaton, who was visiting the set, got cast in a cameo as a drunk getting thrown out of a saloon.[3]
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