Scarlet Seas

Scarlet Seas is a surviving 1929 American synchronized sound romantic adventure film produced by Richard A. Rowland and distributed by First National Pictures. Although there is no audible dialogue, the film was released with a musical score with sound effects using the Vitaphone sound-on-disc recording process. The picture was directed by John Francis Dillon. It starred Richard Barthelmess, Betty Compson, and a teen-aged Loretta Young. The film was formerly presumed lost.

The story was written by W. Scott Darling.

Cast

Richard Barthelmess as Steven Dunkin
Betty Compson as Rose
Loretta Young as Margaret Barbour
James Bradbury Sr. as Johnson
Jack Curtis as Toomey
Knute Erickson as Captain Barbour

uncredited

Shorty English as Sailor

Music

The film featured a theme song entitled "Blossoms (That Bloom In the Moonlight)" which was composed by Ben Black and James Dietrich.

Critical reception

A review in Harrison's Reports found that the film contains "offenses to logic", including the nimbleness of the hero and heroine as they climb a rope ladder despite having survived days of hunger and thirst and the way the hero easily overcomes "a giant", lifts him, and throws him overboard.