The Red Sword

{{short description|1929 film}}

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{{Infobox film

| name =The Red Sword

| image = The Red Sword.jpg

| caption =

| director = Robert G. Vignola

| producer =

| based_on =

| writer = Randolph Bartlett
Wyndham Gittens
Stanner E.V. Taylor

| narrator =

| starring =William Collier Jr.
Marian Nixon
Carmel Myers

| music =

| cinematography =Nicholas Musuraca

| editing = Ann McKnight

| studio = Film Booking Offices of America

| distributor = Film Booking Offices of America

| released = {{Film date|1929|02|17}}

| runtime = 70 minutes

| country = United States

| language = Silent
English intertitles

| budget =

| gross =

}}

The Red Sword is a 1929 American silent adventure film directed by Robert G. Vignola and starring William Collier Jr., Marian Nixon and Carmel Myers.Rainey p.187 The film was produced and distributed by FBO Pictures, shortly before it was taken over by RKO Pictures. It was released in Britain by Ideal Films under the alternative title Three Days to Live.

Synopsis

In Tsarist Russia, a Cossack general Litovski rapes the wife of an innkeeper leading to her death. Years later the innkeeper's daughter Vera seeks revenge on the general, even though she is in love with his nephew.

Cast

Preservation

The film is now lost.[https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.8612 The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database:The Red Sword]

References

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Bibliography

  • Rainey, Buck. Sweethearts of the Sage: Biographies and Filmographies of 258 actresses appearing in Western movies. McFarland & Company, 1992.