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Photograph: Silent Era image collection.
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Under Two Flags
(1922) United States of America
B&W : Eight reels / 7407 feet
Directed by Tod Browning
Cast: Priscilla Dean [Cigarette], James Kirkwood [Corporal Victor], John Davidson [Sheik Ben Ali Hammed], Stuart Holmes [Marquis de Chateauroy], Ethel Grey Terry [Princess Corona], Robert Mack [Rake], Burton Law [the sheik’s aide], Albert Pollet [Captain Tollaire], W.H. Bainbridge [the colonel]
The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated, production; distributed by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated. / Scenario by Edward T. Lowe Jr. and Elliott J. Clawson, from an adaptation by Tod Browning and Edward T. Lowe Jr. of the novel Under Two Flags by Ouida (Marie Louise de la Ramée). Cinematography by William Fildew. Presented by Carl Laemmle. / © 21 September 1922 by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated [LP18229]. Premiered circa 24 September 1922 in New York, New York, and in Chicago, Illinois. Released 6 November 1922. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The novel was previously filmed as Under Two Flags (1916). The novel was subsequently filmed as Under Two Flags (1936).
Drama.
Survival status: Print exists.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Children: Orphans - Death - Exiles - Firing squads - Foreign Legion - Honor - Self-sacrifice - Sheiks
Listing updated: 4 October 2014.
References: AFI-F1 n. F1.4649; Edmonds-BigU pp. 110, 111, 112; Hirschhorn-Universal p. 38; Quirk-Colman p. 179; Sherwood-Best pp. 193-194; Smith-Colman p. 174 : Screenland-192204 p. 4 : Website-AFI.
Home video: DVD.
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