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.[1][2][3][4] A New York Times review considered "this photoplay possesses an element of mystery and suspense".[5]

The Great Deception
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Directed byHoward Higgin
Written byPaul Bern (scenario)
Based onThe Yellow Dove
by George Gibbs
Produced byRobert Kane
StarringBen Lyon
Aileen Pringle
Basil Rathbone
CinematographyErnest Haller
Production
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Robert Kane Productions
Distributed byFirst National Pictures
Release date
  • July 25, 1926 (1926-07-25)
Running time
6 reels
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

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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.

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Bibliography

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  • Parish, James Robert & Pitts, Michael R. The Great Spy Pictures. Scarecrow Press, 1974.
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