Convoy (1927 film)

Convoy
Directed by	Joseph C. Boyle Lothar Mendes (uncredited)
Produced by	Robert Kane Victor Halperin Edward Halperin
Written by	Willis Goldbeck (scenario)
Based on	The Song of the Dragon by John Taintor Foote
Starring	Lowell Sherman Dorothy Mackaill
Cinematography	Ernest Haller
Distributed by	First National Pictures
Release dates	April 24, 1927 (1927-04-24)
Running time	8 reels (7,724 feet)
Country	United States
Language	Silent

Convoy is a lost^[1] 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.^[2]^[3]^[4]

The Alfred Hitchcock film Notorious (1946) was based on the same story, originally published in The Saturday Evening Post.

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.^[5]

Cast

Lowell Sherman - Ernest Drake
Dorothy Mackaill - Sylvia Dodge
William Collier, Jr. - John Dodge
Lawrence Gray - Eugene Weyeth
Ian Keith - Smith
Gail Kane - Mrs. Weyeth
Vincent Serrano - Mr. Dodge
Donald Reed - Smith's Assistant
Eddie Gribbon - Eddie
Jack Ackroyd - Jack
Ione Holmes - Ione

References

↑ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:Convoy
↑ Convoy at silentera.com
↑ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30 by The American Film Institute, c. 1971
↑ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Convoy
↑ McGilligan, p. 366

External links

The films of Lothar Mendes

The Secret of Santa Maria (1921)
The Adventurer (1922)
Certificates of Death (1923)
The Island of Tears (1923)
The Monk from Santarem (1924)
Love is Blind (1926)
Three Cuckoo Clocks (1926)
Prince of Tempters (1926)
Convoy (1927)
A Night of Mystery (1928)
Street of Sin (1928)
Interference (1928)
The Four Feathers (1929)
Dangerous Curves (1929)
Illusion (1929)
The Marriage Playground (1929)
Paramount on Parade (1930)
Ladies' Man (1931)
Personal Maid (1931)
Strangers in Love (1932)
Payment Deferred (1932)
If I Had a Million (1932)
Luxury Liner (1933)
Jew Süss (1934)
The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936)
Moonlight Sonata (1937)
International Squadron (1941)
Flight for Freedom (1943)
Tampico (1944)
The Walls Came Tumbling Down (1946)

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