The Midnight Sun (1926 film)

The Midnight Sun
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Directed byDimitri Buchowetzki
Written byAndrew Percival Younger
Based onLe Soleil de minuit
by Pierre Benoît
Produced byCarl Laemmle
StarringLaura La Plante
Pat O'Malley
Michael Vavitch
CinematographyJackson Rose
Ernest F. Smith
Music byEdward Kilenyi
Production
company
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
  • April 23, 1926 (1926-04-23)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

The Midnight Sun is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki and starring Laura La Plante, Pat O'Malley, and Michael Vavitch.[1] It is based on a novel by the French writer Pierre Benoît.[2] The film is set in pre-Revolutionary Tsarist Russia.

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The film includes a brief scene shot in Technicolor.

  1. ^ Munden p. 511
  2. ^ Progressive Silent Film List: The Midnight Sun at silentera.com