A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2024 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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	Lon Chaney and Barbara Bedford. Photograph: Silent Era image collection.

Cast: Lon Chaney [Sergei], Ricardo Cortez [Dimitri], Barbara Bedford [Tatiana], Mack Swain [Mr. Gaidaroff], Emily Fitzroy [Mrs. Gaidaroff], Charles Puffy [Ivan], Kai Schmidt [butler]

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation [A Benjamin Christensen Production]. / Continuity (scenario) by Bradley King, from [?] a story adaptation by Benjamin Christensen of a short story by Stig Esbern? Settings (set design) by Cedric Gibbons and Alexander Toluboff. Wardrobe (costume design) by Gilbert Clark. Photographed (cinematography) by Merritt B. Gerstad. Film editor, John W. English. Intertitles written by Joe Farnham. Presented by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. / © 12 October 1927 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation [LP24747]. Released 13 August 1927. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Working title: Terror. / Silent film.

Drama.

Survival status: Print exists in the film holdings of Warner Brothers Classics [35mm positive].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 19 February 2020.

References: Film credits, film viewing : Brownlow-Parade p. 511; Eames-MGM p. 39; Limbacher-Feature p. 163; Marrero-Vintage p. 22; Mottram-Danish p. 111; Weaver-Twenty p. 77 : Website-AFI.

Home video: DVD.