Convoy (1927 film)
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Duration Language Silent | Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Director Joseph C. Boyle
Lothar Mendes (uncredited) Release date April 24, 1927 (1927-04-24) Based on The Song of the Dragon
by John Taintor Foote | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Swedish red cross bombed aka sweedish aka swedish ambulance bombed 1936
Convoy is a lost 1927 silent World War I drama starring Lowell Sherman and Dorothy Mackaill and released through First National Pictures. The film is an early producing credit for the Halperin Brothers, Victor and Edward, later of White Zombie fame, and is the final screen appearance of Broadway stars Gail Kane and Vincent Serrano.
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- Swedish red cross bombed aka sweedish aka swedish ambulance bombed 1936
- Motor convoy
- Background
- Cast
- References
The Alfred Hitchcock film Notorious (1946) was based on the same story, originally published in The Saturday Evening Post.
Motor convoy
Background
The Song of the Dragon, is a story by John Taintor Foote, which appeared as a two-part serial in The Saturday Evening Post in November 1921. Set during World War I in New York City, The film tells the tale of a theatrical producer approached by federal agents, who want his assistance in recruiting an actress he once had a relationship with to seduce the leader of a gang of enemy saboteurs.