Secret Orders | |
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Directed by | Chester Withey |
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Cinematography | Roy H. Klaffki |
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Running time | 60 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
Secret Orders is a lost 1926 American silent drama film directed by Chester Withey and starring Harold Goodwin, Robert Frazer, and Evelyn Brent. [1] The film was set in World War I and contained what the Chester Times described as a "world of swift-flowing melodrama. [2]
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Evelyn Brent was an American film and stage actress.
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