Dead Men Tell No Tales (1920 film)

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Directed by Tom Terriss
Written by George Randolph Chester
Lillian Christy Chester
Based onDead Men Tell No Tales
by E. W. Hornung
Produced by Albert E. Smith
Starring Catherine Calvert
Percy Marmont
Cinematography Ernest Haller
Edited byLillian Randolph Chester
George Randolph Chester
Production
company
Distributed byVitagraph Company of America
Release date
  • November 1920 (1920-11)
Running time
70 mins.
CountryUnited States
Language Silent (English intertitles)

Dead Men Tell No Tales is a 1920 American silent adventure film directed by Tom Terriss and starring Catherine Calvert. It was produced by Terriss and the Vitagraph Company of America with distribution by Vitagraph. [1] [2]

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Plot

Cast

Preservation

With no prints of Dead Men Tell No Tales located in any film archives, [3] it is a lost film.

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References

  1. Progressive Silent Film List: Dead Men Tell No Tales at silentera.com
  2. Pictorial History of the Silent Screen, p. 192 c.1953 by Daniel Blum ISBN   0-399-50667-5
  3. The Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Dead Men Tell No Tales