A 1928 silent mystery where criminals, cops, and Apache dancers tangle in a web of desire and murder.
Sonya, a Marseilles Cafe performer involved with a pack of thieves is rescued from her criminal life by a police official who sends her lover and partner in a knife-throwing act to jail and then tries to seduce her. Not submitting to the official's advances, she falls in love with an Apache dancer in Paris and works with him, holding her other admirer at a distance. The official is mysteriously killed, presumably by her lover, it then falls to Sonya to find the real felon.
Acting
Margaret Livingston's smoldering pre-Code independence.
Direction
Phil Rosen's economical 58-minute plotting.
Director
Phil Rosen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This film is considered partially lost; only fragments survive in archives, making complete viewing impossible.
'Apache' referred to a Parisian underworld subculture romanticized in 1920s pop culture, not Native Americans—Livingston's character performs this edgy, violent dance style.
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