The Red Dance

The Red Dance also known as The Red Dancer of Moscow, is a 1928 American film directed by Raoul Walsh, starring Dolores del Ro and Charles Farrell, inspired in the novel by Henry Leyford Gates.

There is a good deal of lethargy about the opening chapters of this offering, but interest picks up in the latter passages, wrote Mordaunt Hall of The New York Times. There are some good scenes in this somewhat wild piece of work, but it is often incoherent. Variety singled out Ivan Linows performance for praise and reported that the scenes of the uprising were successful, but otherwise there wasnt much to direct in this story except to keep it going. Oliver Claxton of The New Yorker panned the film, writing, how anybody with the slightest modicum of intelligence could fashion such a tale is beyond me....a little criticism would shoot the film so full of holes that it would resemble a Swiss cheese without the cheese. The odor, I am afraid, would still remain.

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