The Great Deception is a 1926 American silent drama film starring Basil Rathbone, Ben Lyon, and Aileen Pringle. It is based on the 1915 novel The Yellow Dove by George Gibbs about World War I era espionage, previously adapted as the 1919 film Shadows of Suspicion. This film is currently a lost film.The AFI Catalog of Feature Films:The Great Deception(Wayback)Progressive Silent Film List: The Great Deception at silentera.comArne Andersen's: Lost Film Files indicating the film's lost status under First National films for the year 1926The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Catalog: The Great Deception A New York Times review considered "this photoplay possesses an element of mystery and suspense".Parish & Pitts p.202
Synopsis It portrays the activities of a British undercover agent Cryil Mansfield, who is in Germany as part of a plan to feed false intelligence to the German high command. His mission is threatened by Rizzio, a double agent who uses Mansfield's American lover Lois as part of a scheme to entrap and execute him.
Cast Ben Lyon as Cyril Mansfield Aileen Pringle as Lois Basil Rathbone as Rizzio Sam Hardy as Handy Charlotte Walker as Mrs. Mansfield Amelia Summerville as Lady Jane Hubert Wilke as General Von Frankenhauser Lucien Prival as Von Markow Lucius J. Henderson as Burton Mark Gonzales as Maxwell
References
Bibliography Parish, James Robert & Pitts, Michael R. The Great Spy Pictures. Scarecrow Press, 1974.
External links
Stills from The Great Deception at silenthollywood.com