The Great Deception (1926)

Directed by

Howard Higgin

Genre

drama film, silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

During World War I, a man gets caught up in espionage. The film follows his involvement with secrets and deception.

mysterioussuspensefuldramaticsilent-eraromanticwartimeintriguingtense

What happens

The Great Deception is a 1926 American silent drama film starring Basil Rathbone, Ben Lyon, and Aileen Pringle. It is based on the 1915 novel The Yellow Dove by George Gibbs about World War I era espionage, previously adapted as the 1919 film Shadows of Suspicion. This film is currently a lost film. A New York Times review considered "this photoplay possesses an element of mystery and suspense". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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