Two Arabian Knights

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Two Arabian Knights
Directed by	Lewis Milestone
Produced by	John W. Considine Jr. Jeffery Masino Howard Hughes
Written by	Donald McGibney Wallace Smith Cyril Gardner James T. O'Donohoe George Marion Jr.
Starring	William Boyd Mary Astor
Cinematography	Tony Gaudio Joseph H. August
Editing by	Douglass Biggs
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date(s)	23 September 1927
Running time	92 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent English intertitles
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Two Arabian Knights (1927) is a silent black-and-white comedy film directed by Lewis Milestone, who won an Academy Award for his work on the film. Producer Howard Hughes produced the film for his Caddo Corporation, after the success of other World War I-set films such as What Price Glory?, released in 1926. Two Arabian Knights was originally released by United Artists.

The plot concerns two American soldiers during the First World War, who escape from a German prison camp and face many adventures in Arabia.

The movie was filmed in the US and has a running time of 92 minutes. It was made by The Caddo Company under the studio United Artists. The movie starred William Boyd, Mary Astor, Louis Wolheim, Michael Vavitch, Ian Keith, and DeWitt Jennings. The screenwriters were James T. O'Donohue, Wallace Smith, and George Marion Jr. The film won an Academy Award for Best Comedy Direction.

The film was long thought lost before being located in Howard Hughes' film collection after his death. ^[1] A print was shepherded by Dr. Hart Wegner of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas film for restoration by Jeffrey Masino, along with two other "lost" Hughes-produced films, The Racket (1928) and The Mating Call (1928), both originally released by Paramount Pictures. In 2004 and 2006, Turner Classic Movies broadcast all three films, their first showings in decades.