The Great Impersonation (original) (raw)
Film Details
Genre
Release Date
Oct 9, 1921
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Famous Players--Lasky
Distribution Company
Paramount Pictures
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the novel The Great Impersonation by Edward Phillips Oppenheim (Boston, 1920).
Technical Specs
Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Film Length
6,658ft (7 reels)
Synopsis
Sir Edward Dominey and Baron Leopold von Ragastein, almost identical classmates at Oxford, meet again several years later in German East Africa during the Great War. Von Ragastein is serving as military commandant, and Dominey has left England after being suspected of murdering a man who has interfered with his marriage. Von Ragastein plots to have Dominey poisoned by the natives; and assuming Dominey's name, he proceeds to England to spy for the German Emperor. There he meets Princess Eiderstrom, with whom he has had a previous affair, and she resents his apparent affection for the mentally ill Rosamond. The princess, along with Schmidt, another German spy, accuses him of violating national ethics; it transpires, however, that Ragastein is actually Dominey, who has thwarted his enemies. The princess and Schmidt are arrested, and Rosamond is happily reunited with her husband, whom she had suspected to be an imposter.
Director
Crew
Film Details
Genre
Release Date
Oct 9, 1921
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Famous Players--Lasky
Distribution Company
Paramount Pictures
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the novel The Great Impersonation by Edward Phillips Oppenheim (Boston, 1920).
Technical Specs
Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Film Length
6,658ft (7 reels)