Convoy (1927 film)

Convoy is a 1927 American silent World War I drama film directed by Joseph C. Boyle and Lothar Mendes, starring Lowell Sherman and Dorothy Mackaill, and released through First National Pictures. 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 and Vincent Serrano.[1][2][3]

Convoy
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Directed byJoseph C. Boyle
Lothar Mendes (uncredited)
Written byWillis Goldbeck (scenario)
Based onThe Song of the Dragon
by John Taintor Foote
Produced byRobert Kane
Victor Halperin
Edward Halperin
StarringLowell Sherman
Dorothy Mackaill
CinematographyErnest Haller
Distributed byFirst National Pictures
Release date
  • April 24, 1927 (1927-04-24)
Running time
8 reels (7,724 feet)
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

The Alfred Hitchcock film Notorious (1946) was based on the same story, originally published in The Saturday Evening Post.[4]

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 World War I in New York City, The film tells the tale of a theatrical producer 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.[5]

Cast

Preservation

With no prints of Convoy located in any film archives,[6] it is a lost film.

References
  1. Progressive Silent Film List: Convoy at silentera.com
  2. The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30 by The American Film Institute, c. 1971
  3. The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Convoy
  4. Vagg, Stephen (March 25, 2023). "A Brief History of Hitchcock Remakes". Filmink.
  5. McGilligan, p. 366
  6. The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Convoy
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