New York socialites on a yachting trip dock at a New England fishing village. Two engaged couples become infatuated with local siblings, leading to romantic entanglements and disrupting existing relationships.


A yacht glints like a chandelier against the Atlantic’s pewter skin, and within its mirrored salons four Manhattanites rehearse forever—until the village exhales, and everything unspools. Edmund Goulding’s The Seventh Day—long misfiled under the dusty ledger of “programmer pictures”—is in truth a prism held up to 192...

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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.

Henry King

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" A yacht glints like a chandelier against the Atlantic’s pewter skin, and within its mirrored salons four Manhattanites rehearse forever—until the village exhales, and everything unspools. Edmund Goulding’s The Seventh Day—long misfiled under the dusty ledger of “programmer pictures”—is in truth a prism held up to 1922’s brittle sophistication, splitting its beam into violet longing and blood-orange regret. The film survives only in a 16-mm abridgement at the Library of Congress, yet what remai..."
Edmund Goulding, Porter Emerson Browne
United States

