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The Enemy
(1927) American
B&W : Feature film
Directed by Fred Niblo

Cast: Lillian Gish, Ralph Forbes, Frank Currier, Ralph Emerson, George Fawcett, Fritzi Ridgway, John S. Peters, Karl Dane, Polly Moran, Billy Kent Schaefer, Joel McCrea [extra]

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. / Scenario by Willis Goldbeck, from the play The Enemy by Channing Pollock. Continuity by Agnes Christine Johnston. Set design by Cedric Gibbons and Richard Day. Assistant director Harold S. Bucquet. Cinematography by Oliver Marsh (Oliver T. Marsh). Intertitles by John Colton. Edited by Margaret Booth. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / Gish’s fifth and final MGM film; completed after, but released before, The Wind (1928). / Silent film.

Drama.

Survival Status: Incomplete print exists in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film library (missing last reel).

Keywords: Crime: Prostitution - Death - Poverty - War

Listing updated: 15 January 2004.

References: Brownlow-Parade p. 302; Eames-MGM p. 36; Higashi-Virgins p. 23; Vermilye-Twenties p. 215; Weaver-Twenty p. 146: ClasIm-330 p. 46.

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