Old Loves and New | |
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Directed by | Maurice Tourneur |
Written by | Marion Fairfax (adaption) |
Based on | The Desert Healer by Edith Maude Hull |
Produced by | Sam E. Rork |
Cinematography | Henry Cronjager |
Edited by | Patricia Rooney |
Distributed by | First National Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 80 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
Old Loves and New is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by Maurice Tourneur in one of his final American films.
The setting and story are completely typical of the desert-romance genre novelist Edith Maude Hull invented and specialized in. This film is now lost. [1] [2] [3]
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