His Captive Woman (1929)
1h 20m
Running Time
February 3, 1929Release Date
His Captive Woman (1929)
1h 20m
Running Time
February 3, 1929Release Date
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Plot.
Cabaret dancer Anna Janssen kills her sugardaddy and escapes to a South Seas island on the yacht of a wealthy admirer. Stolid, conscientious Tom McCarthy, a New York detective, is sent after Anna and arrests her, chartering a steamer to bring her back to the United States. The steamer sinks, and Anna and Tom are stranded on a small island. They fall in love, and Tom's influence brings about a benign change in Anna's character. They are rescued, however, and Anna is placed on trial for her life. Tom takes the stand in her defense and informs the judge of Anna's conversion in the solitude of the island. The judge instructs Tom to marry Anna and then sentences them to life--on the island where they found happiness together.
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Cast & Crew.
Milton Sills
Officer Thomas McCarthy
Dorothy Mackaill
Anna Janssen
Gladden James
Alastair de Vries
Jed Prouty
Fatty Fargo
George Fitzmaurice
Director
Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne
Writer
Carey Wilson
Writer
Paul Perez
Writer
Details.
Wiki.
His Captive Woman is a 1929 American part-talking drama film directed by George Fitzmaurice and starring Milton Sills and Dorothy Mackaill. This film is "based on the short story "Changeling" by Donn Byrne in Changeling and Other Stories (New York, 1923)." It was produced and distributed by First National Pictures which was already a subsidiary of the Warner Brothers studios. The Vitaphone sound system was also a subsidiary of Warners. Both Mackaill and Sills as well as director Fitzmaurice had worked together on the previous year's The Barker.