During the Revolution Princess Vera, though betrothed to Prince Dimitri, is attracted to the peasant Feodor.During the Revolution Princess Vera, though betrothed to Prince Dimitri, is attracted to the peasant Feodor.During the Revolution Princess Vera, though betrothed to Prince Dimitri, is attracted to the peasant Feodor.
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Charles Clary
- Red Army Officer
- (uncredited)
Gino Corrado
- White Army Officer
- (uncredited)
Malcolm Denny
- Undetermined Secondary Role
- (uncredited)
Lillian Elliott
- Landlady
- (uncredited)
John George
- Red Army Soldier
- (uncredited)
William Humphrey
- Head of the Tribunal
- (uncredited)
Viola Louie
- Undetermined Role
- (uncredited)
Ruth Miller
- Undetermined Role
- (uncredited)
Eugene Pallette
- Revolutionary
- (uncredited)
George Periolat
- Prince Nikita's Servant
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaJulia Faye replaced Jetta Goudal, who was fired after repeatedly clashing with director Cecil B. DeMille.
- Quotes
Feodor, A Volga Boatman: I love you - with the last beat of my heart.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic (2004)
- SoundtracksSong of the Volga Boatmen
By Sigmund Spaeth
Harmonized by Carl Deis, c. 1926
'the immortal song that inspired the Cecil B. DeMille motion picture production "The Volga Boatman" with William Boyd and Elinor Fair'
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Will love find a way in the Russian Revolution?
In his autobiography Cecil B. DeMille said that getting this picture made later would probably have gotten him blacklisted. Of course in saying that DeMille knew his rightwing credentials were impeccable and no chance of that happening. In fact this film about The Russian Revolution is so sanitized that you'll not see mentioned the names of Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky, Kerensky or any of the personalities of that seminal event in history of the 20th century.
Bearing no small resemblance to the later MGM film At The Balalaika, The Volga Boatman stars Elinor Fair as a Russian princess who while out riding with Victor Varconi of her own class gets good and smitten with peasant leader William Boyd who is one of the folks who totes those barges down the Volga River. Varconi takes it upon himself to humiliate Boyd for being uppity, but Boyd becomes a leader of the Revolution and soon the tables are turned.
The problem is that he too is good and smitten with the princess Fair and risks life, limb, and position in the revolution to save her. I doubt Lenin would have approved. So the Russian Revolution in this film is turned into a will love find a way drama. By the way two men in heat over the same woman is running theme in a flock of DeMille films from this one right up to Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner in The Ten Commandments.
The battle scenes are as usual impeccably done as is the DeMille tradition. That makes up for a lot of the hokiness that today's audience would find with The Volga Boatman.
At The Balalaika had Nelson Eddy's singing to do the same.
Bearing no small resemblance to the later MGM film At The Balalaika, The Volga Boatman stars Elinor Fair as a Russian princess who while out riding with Victor Varconi of her own class gets good and smitten with peasant leader William Boyd who is one of the folks who totes those barges down the Volga River. Varconi takes it upon himself to humiliate Boyd for being uppity, but Boyd becomes a leader of the Revolution and soon the tables are turned.
The problem is that he too is good and smitten with the princess Fair and risks life, limb, and position in the revolution to save her. I doubt Lenin would have approved. So the Russian Revolution in this film is turned into a will love find a way drama. By the way two men in heat over the same woman is running theme in a flock of DeMille films from this one right up to Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner in The Ten Commandments.
The battle scenes are as usual impeccably done as is the DeMille tradition. That makes up for a lot of the hokiness that today's audience would find with The Volga Boatman.
At The Balalaika had Nelson Eddy's singing to do the same.
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- Jan 9, 2015
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- Budget
- $497,356 (estimated)
- Runtime2 hours
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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