Torrent (1926 film)

Torrent is a 1926 American silent romantic drama film directed by an uncredited Monta Bell, based on a novel by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, and released on February 21, 1926.

The title refers to a flood that occurs in the small town where most of the action takes place, which draws the two romantic leading characters closer together.

As described in a film magazine review,[8] Donna Brull is opposed to her son Rafael marrying the peasant Leonora, a poor young Spanish woman.

Later, she visits her home, where Rafael saves her and Remedios, the young woman he is engaged to, from drowning in a flood.

In Torrent, her first American film, she was cast as Leonora, a young Spanish peasant woman, and MGM was pleased with the results.

Torrent (1926)
Publicity still for the film with Garbo and Cortez.