Ebb Tide (1922 film)

Ebb Tide
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Directed byGeorge Melford
Written byWaldemar Young (scenario)
Based onThe Ebb-Tide
by R. L. Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne
Produced byAdolph Zukor
Jesse L. Lasky
George Melford
StarringLila Lee
James Kirkwood
CinematographyBert Glennon
James Wong Howe (assistant camera)
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release dates
  • November 18, 1922 (1922-11-18) (NYC Premiere)
  • December 4, 1922 (1922-12-04) (General release)
Running time
8 reels (7,336 feet)
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Ebb Tide is a 1922 American silent adventure film produced by Famous Players–Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures, directed by George Melford, and based on the 1894 novel The Ebb-Tide by Robert Louis Stevenson and his step-son Lloyd Osbourne. The story had been filmed before in 1915 by the Selig Polyscope Company.

The film would be filmed again in 1937 and in 1947 as Adventure Island. Melford's production is now considered a lost film.[1][2]