
On her deathbed, an aged woman recluse promises to repay young siblings Dorothy and Bobbie Carleton for their friendship. During the Galveston tidal wave of 1900, the children are separated.

Spine-tingling, sea-soaked, and spiritually scorched—this forgotten fever dream deserves a resurrection. There is a moment—hushed, almost offhand—when the camera in Do the Dead Talk? lingers on a candlewick drowning in its own wax. Nothing in the intertitle heralds the shot, yet the flame shudders, leans, expires. In...


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" Spine-tingling, sea-soaked, and spiritually scorched—this forgotten fever dream deserves a resurrection. There is a moment—hushed, almost offhand—when the camera in Do the Dead Talk? lingers on a candlewick drowning in its own wax. Nothing in the intertitle heralds the shot, yet the flame shudders, leans, expires. In that splice you sense the entire film inhaling: a century-old caution that love, if misaligned, can cremate the soul more efficiently than any tidal wave. Set designers paint Gal..."
Josephine Stevenson
H.A. Cross, Jack MacCullough
United States
1920 · IMDb —
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