''Convoy'' is a lost 1927 American silent

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drama starring

Lowell Sherman Lowell J. Sherman (October 11, 1888 – December 28, 1934) was an American actor and film director. In an unusual practice for the time, he served as both actor and director on several films in the early 1930s. He later turned exclusively to d ...

and

Dorothy Mackaill Dorothy Mackaill (March 4, 1903 – August 12, 1990) was a British-American actress, most active during the silent film, silent-film era and into the Pre-Code Hollywood, pre-Code era of the early 1930s. Early life Born in Sculcoates, Kingston u ...

and released through

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. 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 Gail Kane (born Abigail Kane; July 10, 1885 – February 17, 1966) was an American stage and silent movie actress. Early years Kane was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She attended a private school in Newburgh, New York, but eschewed addit ...

and Vincent Serrano.The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: ''Convoy''
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film '' Notorious'' (1946) was based on the same story, originally published in ''

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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

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, The film tells the tale of a

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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.McGilligan, p. 366

Cast

as Ernest Drake *

as Sylvia Dodge * William Collier, Jr. as John Dodge *

Lawrence Gray Lawrence Gray (July 28, 1898 – February 2, 1970) was an American actor of the 1920s and 1930s. Biography Born in San Francisco in 1898, Gray served during World War I in the U. S. Navy and gained a commission. After the war he began in ...

as Eugene Weyeth *

Ian Keith Ian Keith (born Keith Ross; February 27, 1899 – March 26, 1960) was an American actor. Early years Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Keith grew up in Chicago. He was educated at the Francis Parker School there and played Hamlet in a school p ...

as Smith *

as Mrs. Weyeth * Vincent Serrano as Mr. Dodge * Donald Reed as Smith's Assistant *

Eddie Gribbon Eddie Gribbon (January 3, 1890 – September 29, 1965) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 180 films from the 1910s to the 1950s. Gribbon began working in Mack Sennett films in 1916 and continued through the 1920s. He usuall ...

as Eddie *Jack Ackroyd as Jack *Ione Holmes as Ione

References

External links

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Still of Dorothy Mackaill and Lawrence Gray from the film
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