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The Great Deception
(1926) United States of America
B&W : [?] Six or Seven? reels / 5855 feet
Directed by Howard Higgin

Cast: Ben Lyon [Cyril Mansfield], Aileen Pringle [Lois], Basil Rathbone [Rizzio], Sam Hardy [Handy], Charlotte Walker [Mrs. Mansfield], Amelia Summerville [Lady Jane], Hubert Wilke [General Von Frankenhauser], Lucien Prival [Von Markow], Lucius Henderson [Burton], Mark Gonzales [Maxwell]

First National Pictures, Incorporated, production; distributed by First National Pictures, Incorporated. / Scenario by Paul Bern, from the novel The Yellow Dove by George Gibbs. Cinematography by Ernest Haller. Presented by Robert Kane. / © 27 July 1926 by First National Pictures, Incorporated [LP22984] (at seven reels). Released 25 July 1926. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The novel was previously filmed as Shadows of Suspicion (1919).

Drama.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 20 September 2015.

References: LoC-MoPic-2 p. 320.