Three Faces East (1926 film)

{{Infobox film

| name = Three Faces East

| image = Three Faces East ad in The Film Daily, Jan-Jun 1926 (page 174 crop).jpg

| caption =

| director = Rupert Julian

| producer = Cecil B. DeMille

| based_on = {{based on|Three Faces East|Anthony Paul Kelly}}

| writer = C. Gardner Sullivan (scenario)
Monte Katterjohn (scenario)

| starring = Jetta Goudal
Robert Ames
Clive Brook

| music = Hugo Riesenfeld

| cinematography = J. Peverell Marley

| editing = Claude Berkeley

| studio = Cinema Corporation of America

| distributor = Producers Distributing Corporation

| released = {{Film date|1926|02|03}}

| runtime = Seven reels (7,419 feet)

| country = United States

| language = Silent (English intertitles)

}}

Three Faces East is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by Rupert Julian and starring Jetta Goudal and Clive Brook. It is based on a popular 1918 Broadway play by Anthony Paul Kelly about spies during World War I.[http://ibdb.com/production.php?id=8322 Three Faces East as produced on Broadway at the Cohan and Harris Theatre and the Longacre Theatre, beginning August 13, 1918; 335 performances; IBDb.com] It was remade under same title as a sound film in 1930,[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/T/ThreeFacesEast1926.html Progressive Silent Film List: Three Faces East] at silentera.comThe American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30 by The American Film Institute, c. 1971 and in 1940 under the title British Intelligence starring Boris Karloff. The story's action takes place in France and Great Britain.

Plot

As described in a film magazine review,{{Citation |last=Pardy |first=George T. |author-link= |title=Pre-Release Review of Features: Three Faces East |journal=Motion Picture News |volume=33 |issue=1 |pages=86 |date=2 January 1926 |publisher=Motion Picture News, Inc. |location=New York City, New York |url=https://archive.org/details/motionpic33moti/page/n89/mode/1up |access-date=2 January 2023}} {{Source-attribution}} while a German prisoner, British aviator Frank Bennett is nursed back to health by Fraulein Marks, who is really Helen Hawtree of the British Intelligence Service. She reaches England and is sent to the Bennett house to watch for Bolke, a German spy, who turns up as the servant Valdar. Helen falls in love with him but remains true to her country. They go to a cellar that is equipped with a radio, Frank arrives and during a fight Boelke is shot. After the war, Frank looks forward to a happy future with Helen. A highlight of the film is an attack on London by German Zeppelin airships and the British defensive anti-aircraft fire.

Cast

{{Cast listing|

Jetta Goudal as Miss Hawtree / Fraulein Marks
Robert Ames as Frank Bennett
Henry B. Walthall as George Bennett
Clive Brook as Valdar (Boelke)
Edythe Chapman as Mrs. Bennett
Clarence Burton as John Ames
Ed Brady as Firking
Rupert Julian as The Kaiser (uncredited)

}}

Preservation

This film is listed as surviving at the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée archives in Bois d'Arcy, France.[http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.100/default.html The Library of Congress Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Three Faces East]

References

External links

{{IMDb title|0017464}}
{{tcmdb title|id=498791}}
{{AFI film|12659}}
[http://c8.alamy.com/comp/E5M7J5/three-faces-east-from-left-robert-ames-jetta-goudal-1926-E5M7J5.jpg Lobby poster]

Category:1926 films

Category:1920s spy drama films

Category:American spy drama films

Category:American silent feature films

Category:American films based on plays

Category:Films directed by Rupert Julian

Category:American black-and-white films

Category:Producers Distributing Corporation films

Category:Films set in London

Category:1926 drama films

Category:1920s American films

Category:Silent American drama films