Two Arabian Knights (1927)
- Directed by
- Lewis Milestone
- Genre
- comedy film, silent film, romantic comedy film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 22m
- Rating
- 5.8 of 10 from 27 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
Two American soldiers escape from a German prison camp during World War I. They go on an adventure that involves disguises and a woman they meet along the way.
lightheartedwhimsicalplayfulslapstickcomicalbreezynostalgicsilent-era
What happens
Two Arabian Knights is a 1927 American silent comedy film, directed by Lewis Milestone and starring William Boyd, Mary Astor, and Louis Wolheim. The film was produced by Howard Hughes and was distributed by United Artists. The screenwriters were James T. O'Donohue, Wallace Smith, and George Marion Jr, based on a 1924 story by Donald McGibney, serialized in McClure's Magazine. The film won the only Academy Award for Best Comedy Direction in 1929. The next year, AMPAS merged the categories Best Director of a Comedy Picture and Best Director of a Dramatic Picture to form the category Academy Award for Best Director. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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