White Gold is a 1927 silent film

Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards...

 dramatic western produced and distributed by Cecil B. DeMille

Cecil B. DeMille

Cecil Blount DeMille was an American film director and Academy Award-winning film producer in both silent and sound films. He was renowned for the flamboyance and showmanship of his movies...

 and directed by William K. Howard

William K. Howard

William K. Howard was a film director, writer and producer.Howard began his work in Hollywood as an assistant director on the 1920 release The Adorable Savage. The following year, he received his first directing credits, for Get Your Man, Play Square and What Love Will Do...

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Cast

• Jetta Goudal
  Jetta Goudal
  Jetta Goudal was a Dutch-born American actress, successful in Hollywood films of the silent film era.-Early life:Goudal was born as Juliette Henriette Goudeket in 1891, daughter of Mozes Goudeket , a wealthy, Orthodox Jewish diamond cutter in Amsterdam, and Geertruida Warradijn...
  
   as Dolores Carson
• Kenneth Thomson as Alec Carson
• George Bancroft
  George Bancroft
  George Bancroft was an American historian and statesman who was prominent in promoting secondary education both in his home state and at the national level. During his tenure as U.S. Secretary of the Navy, he established the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1845...
  
   as Sam Randall
• George Nichols
  George Nichols (actor)
  George Nichols was an American actor and director. He appeared in 221 films between 1908 and 1928. He also directed 103 films between 1911 and 1916.He was born in Rockford, Illinois and died in Hollywood, California....
  
   as Carson, Alec's Father
• Bob Perry as Bucky O'Neill( billed as Robert Perry)
• Clyde Cook
  Clyde Cook (actor)
  Clyde Cook was an Australian born actor whose career spanned the silent film era, talkies and television.He was known as the "Rubber Comedian" because of his ability to bend himself into almost any position...
  
   as Homer

Critical reception

Mordaunt Hall of the New York Times described the film as an "interesting production" that also had "marked simplicity" in terms of its story. Hall also said that "but for some repetitions, a few accentuated actions and instances of forced comedy, [it] would be one of the really great productions." The Ottawa Citizen

Ottawa Citizen

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 said that, because of a new scripting technique employed by William Howard, "the film more closely approaches realism than anything ever before attempted in motion pictures." Philip K. Scheuer of the Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles Times

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 called it a "distinguished film" that "employed sound by suggestion--creaking rockers, ticking clocks, the click of poker chips".

External Links

• White Gold at the Internet Movie Database
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