--- title: 'White Shadows in the South Seas (1928)' type: 'film' director: 'Robert J. Flaherty' released: '1928-01-01' runtime_minutes: 88 genres: - 'Drama' - 'Action' - 'Romance' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/white-shadows-in-the-south-seas-1928' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0019574/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # White Shadows in the South Seas (1928) 1928 · 88 min · Drama, Action, Romance · United States ## Synopsis 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 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, who distributed the film. 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. ## Credits - **Director:** [Robert J. Flaherty](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-j-flaherty), [W. S. Van Dyke](https://cinepixo.com/people/w-s-van-dyke) - **Screenplay:** [Jack Cunningham](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-cunningham) - **Original Music Composer:** [William Axt](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-axt) - **Producer:** [William Randolph Hearst](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-randolph-hearst), [Irving Thalberg](https://cinepixo.com/people/irving-thalberg), [Hunt Stromberg](https://cinepixo.com/people/hunt-stromberg) - **Director of Photography:** [Clyde De Vinna](https://cinepixo.com/people/clyde-de-vinna) - **Editor:** [Ben Lewis](https://cinepixo.com/people/ben-lewis) ## Cast - [Monte Blue](https://cinepixo.com/people/monte-blue) - [Raquel Torres](https://cinepixo.com/people/raquel-torres) - [Robert Anderson](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-anderson-5) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/white-shadows-in-the-south-seas-1928 Film facts: Wikidata (Q535195); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.