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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	Emil Jannings. Photograph: Silent Era image collection.

Cast: Emil Jannings [General Dolgorucki / Grand Duke Sergius Alexander], Evelyn Brent [Natalie Dabrova], William Powell [Lev Andreyev, the director], Jack Raymond [the assistant director], Nicholas Soussanin [the adjutant], Michael Visaroff [Serge, the bodyguard], Fritz Feld [a revolutionist]; Viacheslav Savitsky [a private], Harry Semels [a soldier], Alexander Ikonnikov [a drillmaster], Nicholas Kobyliansky [a drillmaster], Shep Houghton [Russian boy]

Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation. / Produced by Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky. Associate producer, B.P. Schulberg. Production supervised by J.G. Bachmann (Joseph G. Bachmann). Screen play (scenario) by John F. Goodrich, from an original story by Josef von Sternberg based on an incident told to Lájos Biró by Ernst Lubitsch. Production design by Hans Dreier. Technical director, Nicholas Kobyliansky. Photographed (cinematography) by Bert Glennon. Film editor, William Shea. Titles (intertitles written) by Herman J. Mankiewicz. Presented by Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky. / © 1928 by Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation. Released January 1928. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Working title: The General. Victor Fleming was originally announced to direct the film. Powell’s 28th film. Academy Award winner for Actor (Jannings). / Silent film.

Drama.

Survival status: Print exists in the George Eastman Museum film archive [35mm positive].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Actors - Costumes - Make-up - Movie studios - Russia - Russians - Telephones - Unemployed people - USA: California: Hollywood

Listing updated: 1 September 2019.

References: Film credits, film viewing : Bardèche-History p. 299; Bohn-Light p. 88; Brownlow-Parade pp. 36, 196-198, 203, 204; Fell-History pp. 123-124; Kael-Kiss p. 240; Kerr-Silent pp. 8, 46; Leish-Cinema p. 53; Limbacher-Feature p. 135; Maltin-Classic p. 376; Quirk-Powell pp. 21-22, 80-82, 88; Sarris-Sternberg pp. 8, 15, 16, 18, 19, 25, 50; Sweeney-Coming pp. 116, 131; Vermilye-Twenties pp. 185-188 : Website-GEM.

Home video: Blu-ray Disc, DVD.