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Under Two Flags is a american film of genre Drama directed by J. Gordon Edwards released in USA on 31 july 1916 with Theda Bara

Under Two Flags (1916)

Under Two Flags
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Released in USA 31 july 1916
Length 1h
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Adventure
Rating63% 3.150933.150933.150933.150933.15093

Under Two Flags was a 1916 American silent drama film directed by J. Gordon Edwards and starring Theda Bara. It was the second adaptation of the best selling 1867 novel Under Two Flags by Ouida. The film is now considered to be lost.

The film was re-released by Fox Film Corporation in January 1919. The novel was adapted to the screen for a third time in 1922 as Under Two Flags by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company and a fourth time in 1936 again as Under Two Flags by 20th Century Fox.



^ "Progressive Silent Film List: Under Two Flags". silentera. Retrieved 2008-06-29.

^ Tepa Lupack, Barbara, ed. (1999). Nineteenth-century Women at the Movies: Adapting Classic Women's Fiction to Film. Popular Press. p. 275. ISBN 0-879-72805-1.

Synopsis

As described in a film magazine, British nobleman Bertie Cecil (Heyes) takes upon himself the blame for his brother's forgeries and, when supposed dead, enlists in the French Foreign Legion, serving in Algiers. There he wins the friendship of Emir, a native whose wife he had saved from the lust of his commanding officer. old friends visit Algiers and recognize Bertie, and urge him to return and claim his own. His refusal leads to a scene were he strikes his commanding officer, and for this he is condemned to death. Cigarette, the "daughter of the regiment," rides to obtain a pardon for Bertie and makes a terrific trip through a sand storm. She arrives too late with the reprieve, but just in time to receive in her own body the bullets intended for Bertie.

Actors

Theda Bara

(Cigarette)Herbert Heyes

(Bertie Cecil)Stuart Holmes

(Chateauroye)Joseph Crehan

(Rake)Claire Whitney

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