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The False Faces is a american film of genre Drama directed by Irvin Willat released in USA on 15 february 1919 with Lon Chaney

The False Faces (1919)

The False Faces
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Released in USA 15 february 1919
Length 1h37
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    War,    Action
Rating59% 2.9939952.9939952.9939952.9939952.993995

The False Faces is a 1919 American silent drama film directed by Irvin Willat from the novel by Louis Joseph Vance and starring Henry B. Walthall as Michael Lanyard, the "Lone Wolf," and Lon Chaney as the villain. A print of the film survives at George Eastman House. Lon Chaney's energetic performance remains an early example of his celebrated work.



^ "Progressive Silent Film: The False Faces". silentera. Retrieved 2008-06-27.

Synopsis

During World War I, a professional thief known as The Lone Wolf (Henry B. Walthall) is assigned to steal a cylinder with important information from behind the German lines and bring it to Allied intelligence headquarters. However, German agents set out to stop him, headed by the dreaded Eckstrom (Lon Chaney), the man who was responsible for slaughtering the Lone Wolf's sister and her family.

Actors

Lon Chaney

(Karl Eckstrom)Henry B. Walthall

(Michael Lanyard)Mary Anderson

(Cecilia Brooke)Mary Anderson (actrice, 1897-1986)

(Cecilia Brooke)Stanley Ridges
And :
Milton Ross
William Bowman
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