The Face in the Fog
The Face in the Fog | |
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Directed by | Alan Crosland |
Written by | John Lynch (scenario) Jack Boyle (scenario) |
Based on | Boston Blackie by Jack Boyle |
Produced by | William Randolph Hearst (for Cosmopolitan Productions) |
Starring | Lionel Barrymore Seena Owen |
Cinematography | Ira H. Morgan Harold Wenstrom |
Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 70 minutes; 7 reels (6,095 ft) |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
The Face in the Fog is a 1922 American silent film produced by Cosmopolitan Productions and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It was directed by Alan Crosland and starred Lionel Barrymore as detective Boston Blackie. An incomplete print is preserved at the Library of Congress.[1][2][3][4]
Plot
The film is about the efforts of a group of Russian criminals to steal jewels from a Duchess.[5]
Cast
- Lionel Barrymore – Boston Blackie Dawson
- Seena Owen – Grand Duchess Tatiana
- Lowell Sherman – Count Alexis Orloff
- George Nash – Huck Kant
- Louis Wolheim – Petrus
- Mary MacLaren – Mary Dawson
- Macey Harlam – Count Ivan
- Gustav von Seyffertitz – Michael
- Joe King – Detective Wren
- Tom Blake – Surtep
- Marie Burke – Olga
- Joseph W. Smiley – Police Captain
- Martin Faust – Ivan's valet
- Mario Majeroni – Grand Duke Alexis
References
- ^ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921–30 by the American Film Institute, c. 1971
- ^ Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection p. 53, c. 1978 by The American Film Institute
- ^ Progressive Silent Film List: The Face in the Fog at silentera.com
- ^ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: The Face In The Fog
- ^ The Alaska daily empire (Juneau, Alaska), 27 Oct. 1924. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84020657/1924-10-27/ed-1/seq-3/