Dead Men Tell No Tales (1920 film)

Dead Men Tell No Tales
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Directed by	Tom Terriss
Written by	George Randolph Chester Lillian Christy Chester
Based on	Dead Men Tell No Tales by E. W. Hornung
Produced by	Albert E. Smith
Starring	Catherine Calvert Percy Marmont
Cinematography	Ernest Haller
Edited by	Lillian Randolph Chester George Randolph Chester
Production company	Vitagraph Company of America
Distributed by	Vitagraph Company of America
Release date	November 1920 (1920-11)
Running time	70 minutes
Country	United 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]}

Cast

• Catherine Calvert as Eva Dennison
• Percy Marmont as George Stevenson Cole
• Holmes Herbert as Squire John Rattray
• Gustav von Seyffertitz as Señor Joaquin Santos
• Walter James as José
• Roy Applegate as Capt. Harris
• India Wakara as Jane Braithwaite
• Bernard Siegel as Braithwaite

Preservation

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

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

External links

• Dead Men Tell No Tales at IMDb
• Lantern slide at silenthollywood.com