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The Great Deception
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Wikipedia article
'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.[https://web.archive.org/web/20170711175005/http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=9482 The AFI Catalog of Feature Films:'The Great Deception'](Wayback)[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/G/GreatDeception1926.html Progressive Silent Film List: 'The Great Deception'] at silentera.com[http://www.silentsaregolden.com/arnefirstnational.html 'Arne Andersen's: Lost Film Files' indicating the film's 'lost' status under First National films for the year 1926][http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.5786/default.html The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Catalog: 'The Great Deception'] A 'New York Times' review considered "this photoplay possesses an element of mystery and suspense".Parish & Pitts p.202
Synopsis
It portrays the activities of a British undercover agent Cryil Mansfield, who is in Germany as part of a plan to feed false intelligence to the German high command. His mission is threatened by Rizzio, a double agent who uses Mansfield's American lover Lois as part of a scheme to entrap and execute him.
Cast
*Ben Lyon as Cyril Mansfield
*Aileen Pringle as Lois
*Basil Rathbone as Rizzio
*Sam Hardy as Handy
*Charlotte Walker as Mrs. Mansfield
*Amelia Summerville as Lady Jane
*Hubert Wilke as General Von Frankenhauser
*Lucien Prival as Von Markow
*Lucius J. Henderson as Burton
*Mark Gonzales as Maxwell
References
Bibliography
* Parish, James Robert & Pitts, Michael R. 'The Great Spy Pictures'. Scarecrow Press, 1974.
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