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Foreign Devils (1927)

Foreign Devils poster
Directed by
W. S. Van Dyke
Genre
drama film, silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
50 min
Rated
NR
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Set during the Boxer Rebellion in China, an American soldier falls in love with a woman caught in the conflict. He tries to protect her as tensions rise between foreign powers and Chinese nationalists.

old-fashionedstraightforwardearneststylizedhistoricalrestraineddramatic

What happens

Foreign Devils is a 1927 American silent drama film directed by W. S. Van Dyke and starring Tim McCoy and Claire Windsor, which was released by MGM on September 3, 1927. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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