We also see the new minister become infatuated with - Dove. Here we see a twenties flapper, Dove, become infatuated with the new minister. Weber's works nearly always spun a moral of some sort. Newly released by Kino-Lorber on Blu-Ray, this is one of the last films directed by Lois Weber, and it was her last for Universal Studios where she'd been a top director, if not their top director, since the early and middle 1910s. He's not mentioned in the credits, but he plays a major part near the end, and that's Tom Ricketts as the new minister's bishop.
One last person in the film needs to be recognized. Near the end, look for a hammy looking, mustachioed, young Walter Brennan as a yacht hand. "Sensation Seekers" (1927) is, frankly, a genuine potboiler, but.it's a great potboiler! Starring absolutely gorgeous Billie Dove who gives an outstanding performance and is someone the viewer cannot takes eyes off of while she's on screen, her co-stars are Raymond Bloomer, Huntley Gordon, Peggy Montgomery (no, not the child star), Will Gregory, Edith Yorke, Helen Gilmore, Phillips Smalley (director Lois Weber's ex-husband!), and others.
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