The Scarlet Lady
1928 | 72m | English
Popularity: 0.6 (history)
| Director: | Alan Crosland |
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| Writer: | Elmer Harris, Bess Meredyth, John F. Goodrich |
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| The film follows Lya, a woman seeking refuge from Cossack soldiers, who finds herself at the palace of Prince Nicholas. She becomes his majordomo and they fall in love, but their relationship is disrupted when Nicholas learns of her past with a Bolshevik leader. Lya is expelled, becomes a terrorist, and later encounters Nicholas again, now disguised as a servant. When Nicholas is sentenced to death, she rescues him and they escape together. | |
| Release Date: | Aug 01, 1928 |
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| Director: | Alan Crosland |
| Writer: | Elmer Harris, Bess Meredyth, John F. Goodrich |
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| Keywords | loyalty, forbidden love, banquet, maid, love affair, sexual desire, russian revolution (1917), bolshevik, aristocrats, commoner, imminent execution, revolutionaries, czarism, cossacks, melodrama, rediscovered film, melodramatic, stable, waif |
| Production Companies | Columbia Pictures |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Jan 19, 2026 Entered: May 05, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Lya De Putti | Lya |
| Don Alvarado | Prince Nicholas Karloff |
| Warner Oland | Ivan Zaneriff |
| Otto Matieson | Valet |
| Jacqueline Gadsden | Princess Olga |
| John S. Peters | Captain |
| Theodore Lodi |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Alan Crosland | Director |
| Elmer Harris | Story |
| Bess Meredyth | Adaptation |
| John F. Goodrich | Screenplay |
| James Van Trees | Director of Photography |
| Frank Atkinson | Editor |
| Ben Pivar | Editor |
| Harrison Wiley | Art Direction |
| Lou Herscher | Songs |
| Walter Mayo | Assistant Director |
| Name | Title |
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| Harry Cohn | Producer |
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| 2024 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
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| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| 2025 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 2026 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
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