White Shadows in the South Seas

White Shadows in the South Seas
White Shadows in the South Seas
	1928 film poster
Directed by	W. S. Van Dyke
Written by	Intertitles:; John Colton
Screenplay by	Jack Cunningham; Ray Doyle
Based on	White Shadows in the South Seas; 1919 novel; by Frederick O'Brien
Produced by	Irving Thalberg; Hunt Stromberg; William Randolph Hearst
Starring	Monte Blue; Raquel Torres
Cinematography	Clyde De Vinna; Bob Roberts; George Gordon Nogle
Edited by	Ben Lewis
Music by	William Axt; David Mendoza
Production; company	Cosmopolitan Productions
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date	November 10, 1928;
Running time	89 minutes
Country	United States
Languages	Sound (Synchronized); English Intertitles
Budget	$365,000
Box office	$1.6 million (worldwide rentals)

White Shadows in the South Seas is a 1928 American synchronized sound romantic adventure film directed by W.S. Van Dyke and starring Monte Blue and Raquel Torres. It was produced by Cosmopolitan Productions in association with MGM and distributed by MGM.^[2] While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using the sound-on-film Western Electric Sound System process. Loosely based on the travel book of the same name by Frederick O'Brien, this film is important historically for being the first sound MGM film to be released with a pre-recorded soundtrack. Clyde De Vinna won an Academy Award for Best Cinematography.^[3]

^ ^a ^b The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles, California: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
^ White Shadows in the South Seas at silentera.com
^ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: White Shadows in the South Seas