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The Cossacks
(1928) United States of America
B&W : Ten reels
Directed by George Hill + [Clarence Brown]
Cast: John Gilbert [Lukashka], Renée Adorée [Maryana], Ernest Torrence [Ivan], Nils Asther [Prince Olenin], Paul Hurst [?] [Sitchi or Zarka]?, Dale Fuller [Ulitka, Maryana’s mother], Mary Alden [Lukashka’s mother], Josephine Borio [Stepka], Yorke Sherwood [uncle Eroshka], Joseph Mari [the Turkish spy]
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation. / Scenario by Frances Marion, from an adaption by Frances Marion of the novel Kazadi by Leo Tolstoy. Set design by Cedric Gibbons and Alexander Toluboff. Costume design by David Cox. Technical advisor, Theodore Lodi. Cinematography by Percy Hilburn. Film editor, Blanche Sewell. Intertitles written by John Colton. / © 23 June 1928 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation [LP25438]. Released June 1928. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The direction was credited to Hill, but most of the film was reshot by Brown. / Silent film.
Drama.
Survival status: Print exists in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists film archive.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 1 July 2012.
References: Brownlow-Parade p. 150; Lahue-Gentlemen p. 100; McCaffrey-Guide p. 19; MoPicAlmanac-1929 p. 11; Weaver-Twenty pp. 28, 143 : Website-AFI.
Home video: DVD.
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