The Torrent Movie

The Torrent
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Run Time: 68 min
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Released: 1926
Directors: Monta Bell
Genre/Type: Drama
Romance
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Plot Synopsis by Hal Erickson
The Vincent Blasco-Ibanez novel Entre Naranjos served as the inspiration for Greta Garbo's first American film, The Torrent. Garbo plays Leonora, a full-bodied Spanish peasant girl who falls in love with her landlord's son Don Rafael Bull (Ricardo Cortez). To prevent his son from marrying beneath his station, Don Rafael's father banishes Leonora from his property. She relocates in Paris, where she achieves fame and fortune as an opera singer, while back at home Don Rafael becomes a prominent politician. When Leonora returns home, she spurns his offers of marriage, even during a raging flood in which her life is in Don Rafael's hands. After this spectacular sequence, the film's surprisingly unhappy ending seems anticlimactic. Garbo's lover-mentor Mauritz Stiller had originally been slated to direct The Torrent, but at the last minute MGM opted for house director Monta Bell. Whether or not Stiller could have compensated for the script's more ludicrous passages is open to conjecture: Suffice to say that, without Garbo's presence, The Torrent would have been just so much Spanish applesauce.

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Cast

Actors Character Born
Ricardo Cortez Don Rafael Bruli Apr 19, 1899 in Vienna, Austria
Greta Garbo Leonora Sep 18, 1905 in Stockholm, Sweden
Gertrude Olmstead Rernedios Nov 13, 1904 in Chicago, IL
Edward Connelly Pedro Boreno
Lucien Littlefield Cupido Aug 16, 1895 in San Antonio, TX
Martha Mattox Dona Bernarda Brull
Lucy Beaumont Dona Pepa May 18, 1873 in Bristol, England, UK
Mack Swain Don Andreas Feb 16, 1876 in Salt Lake City, UT
Arthur Edmund Carewe Don Mattias
Lucy Bennett
Tully Marshall Apr 13, 1864 in Nevada City, CA

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