Chloe, Love Is Calling You

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Chloe, Love Is Calling You
Directed by Marshall Neilan
Written by Marshall Neilan (story and screenplay)
Produced by J. D. Trop (producer)
Cinematography Mack Stengler
Edited byJoseph Josephson
Helene Turner
Music byGeorge Henninger
Production
company
Release date
  • April 1, 1934 (1934-04-01)
Running time
62 minutes
54 minutes (Home video release)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Chloe, Love Is Calling You is a 1934 American pre-Code drama film directed by Marshall Neilan. The film is also known as Chloe (American short title). This was lead actress Olive Borden's last film.

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Plot summary

A low-budget Southern drama about a light skinned woman who was raised in the swamps who wishes to avenge her black father's lynching. She falls in love with Wade Carson, a white man who works for Col. Gordon, who orchestrated the lynching. Later she discovers that Col. Gordon is actually her father.

Cast

Reception

Like many American films of the time, Chloe, Love Is Calling You was subject to review by city and state film censorship boards. The Ohio board banned the film. [1]

Soundtrack

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References

  1. Scott, Ellen C. (2015). Cinema Civil Rights: Regulation, Repression, and Race in the Classical Hollywood Era. Rutgers University Press. p. 75. ISBN   978-0-8135-7136-2.