The Scarlet Lady is a 1928 American synchronized sound drama film written by Bess Meredyth and directed by Alan Crosland. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using the sound-on-film Western Electric Sound System process. It was produced and distributed by Columbia Pictures. This film is important historically as it was the first sound feature released by Columbia Pictures.

Plot

In the shadowy basements of Petrograd, amid flickering candlelight and whispered fervor, a revolutionary cell gathers. Among them is Lya (Lya De Putti), a fiery, flirtatious peasant girl whose devotion to the cause is thinly veiled beneath her true passions: beauty, power, and fine things. She is the sweetheart of Zaneriff (Warner Oland), a hardened revolutionary and one of the Red movement's most zealous leaders. But while Zaneriff rants of liberty and overthrowing the Czarist regime, Lya's gaze drifts toward jewels, silks—and her own advantage.