The False Faces | |
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Directed by | Irvin Willat |
Produced by | Thomas H. Ince |
Written by | Louis Joseph Vance Irvin Willat |
Starring | Lon Chaney, Sr. Henry B. Walthall |
Cinematography | Paul Eagler Edwin W. Willat |
Editing by | W. Duncan Mansfield |
Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release date(s) | February 16, 1919 |
Running time | 97 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent English intertitles |
The False Faces is a 1919 silent drama film directed by Irvin Willat and starring Lon Chaney, Sr. A print of the film survives at George Eastman House.[1] On August 31, 2009 the film made it to DVD for the first time.
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During World War I, a professional thief known as The Lone Wolf is assigned to steal a cylinder with important information from behind the German lines and bring it to Allied intelligence headquarters. However, German agents set out to stop him, headed by the man who was responsible for the death of the thief's sister.