The Silent Lover

Nov 21, 1926

1h 10m

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Millions of girls would walk miles for a Sheik- but the desert girls deserted their Sheiks for this Silent Lover!.. And why not- he outfought them- outrode them- out-romanced them!

Overview

The dissolute Count Pierre Tornai, having dissipated his fortune in Paris, embezzles embassy funds while intoxicated; and after spending his last penny on a dancer, he contemplates suicide but is persuaded to enlist in the Foreign Legion. Based on the 1922 play Der Legionër by Lajos Biró.

Genres

Drama

Romance

Production Companies

First National Pictures

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Cast

Count Pierre Tornal

Milton Sills

Vera Sherman

Natalie Kingston

Cornelius Sherman

William Humphrey

Captain Herault

Arthur Edmund Carewe

Kobol

William V. Mong

Scadsza

Viola Dana

Contarini

Claude King

O'Reilly (as Charlie Murray)

Charles Murray

Greenbaum

Arthur Stone

Haldee

Alma Bennett

Ben Achmed

Montagu Love

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