Two Sisters (1929 film)

Two Sisters is a 1929 American sound drama film directed by Scott Pembroke and featuring Boris Karloff. The film is one of the last produced in the sound-on-film process Phonofilm.[1] 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 film is now considered to be lost.[2]

Two Sisters
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Directed byScott Pembroke
Written byArthur Hoerl
Virginia Terhune Vandewater
StarringViola Dana
Rex Lease
CinematographyHap Depew
Distributed byRayart Pictures
Release date
  • March 23, 1929 (1929-03-23)
CountryUnited States
LanguagesSound (Synchronized)
(English Intertitles)

Plot

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Two twin sisters are causing confusion for a detective who is pursuing them. One sister is described as good, honest, and sweet, while the other has a tendency towards carrying guns and committing robberies. The detective is having trouble distinguishing between the two sisters and determining which one he is pursuing for what reason, as he has different motives for chasing each one.

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ IMDB entry
  2. ^ "Two Sisters". American Silent Feature Film Survival Database. Retrieved January 10, 2014.
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