The Cossacks
1928 · 100 min · US
Directed by George W. Hill
George W. Hill and Clarence Brown, MGM, 1928. John Gilbert as a Cossack who would rather read than raid, Renée Adorée opposite him, from Tolstoy's novella. MGM shot it silent and prepared a sound version when theaters started asking for noise. The Archive copy runs about a hundred minutes. Gilbert plays reluctance as a kind of glamour.
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Internet Archive · FM-49 ingest; archive full video
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Cast
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Leo Tolstoy
writer
John Colton
writer
