His Captive Woman

{{short description|1929 film}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = His Captive Woman

| image = "His Captive Woman" ad in The Film Daily, Jan-Jun 1929 (page 1016 crop).jpg

| caption =

| director = George Fitzmaurice

| producer = Richard A. Rowland

| writer = Carey Wilson (scenario)
Paul Perez (dialogue, titles)

| based_on = Changeling, a short story by Donn Byrne from Changeling and Other Stories c.1923

| starring = Milton Sills
Dorothy Mackaill

| music =

| cinematography = Lee Garmes

| editing = Stuart Heisler

| studio = First National Pictures

| distributor = Warner Bros. Pictures

| released = {{Film date|1929|04|02}}

| runtime = 80 minutes

| country = United States

| language = Sound (Part-Talkie)
English Intertitles

}}

His Captive Woman is a 1929 American sound part-talkie part-talking drama film directed by George Fitzmaurice and starring Milton Sills and Dorothy Mackaill.{{Cite news |date=28 Jun 1929 |title=BUSHWORK - His Captive Woman |language=en |pages=17 |work=The Chat |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/576075921 |access-date=28 May 2023}} In addition to sequences with audible dialogue or talking sequences, the film features a synchronized musical score and sound effects along with English intertitles. According to the film review in Variety, 50 percent of the total running time featured dialogue. Variety 10 Apr 1929 p. 23 https://archive.org/details/variety94-1929-04/page/n90/mode/1up These talking sequences all took place during the courtroom scenes in the picture. The soundtrack was recorded using the Vitaphone sound-on-disc system. This film is "based on the short story "Changeling" by Donn Byrne in Changeling and Other Stories (New York, 1923)."{{Cite web|title=AFI{{!}}Catalog|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/9746|access-date=2021-10-24|website=catalog.afi.com}} It was produced and distributed by First National Pictures which was already a subsidiary of the Warner Brothers studios. Both Mackaill and Sills as well as director Fitzmaurice had worked together on the previous year's The Barker.{{Cite web |title=Silent Era : Progressive Silent Film List |url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/H/HisCaptiveWoman1929.html |access-date=2023-05-28 |website=www.silentera.com}}{{Cite news |date=16 Feb 1929 |title="His Captive Woman" |language=en |pages=4 |work="Chillicothe Constitution-Tribune" |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/19857755 |access-date=28 May 2023}}