Review of Sensation Seekers

According to film historian Anthony Slide, Florence Lois Weber "was the American cinema's first genuine auteur, a filmmaker involved in all aspects of production and one who utilized the motion picture to put across her own ideas and philosophies." She's also been called the most important female director in the history of American film. It's amazing that she was making movies in a time when women were still battling for the right to vote.

This is the story of a small-town girl turned Long Island jazz baby Egypt Hagen (Billie Dove) who can't be tamed, not even by the minister who seeks to save her. The dancing scenes are filled with a passion matched only by the spectacle close of a shipwreck.