The Red Sword

{{short description|1929 film}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox film | name =The Red Sword | image = The Red Sword.jpg | caption = | director = Robert G. Vignola | producer = | based_on = | writer = Randolph Bartlett Wyndham Gittens Stanner E.V. Taylor | narrator = | starring =William Collier Jr. Marian Nixon Carmel Myers | music = | cinematography =Nicholas Musuraca | editing = Ann McKnight | studio = Film Booking Offices of America | distributor = Film Booking Offices of America | released = {{Film date|1929|02|17}} | runtime = 70 minutes | country = United States | language = Silent English intertitles | budget = | gross = }} '''''The Red Sword''''' is a 1929 American silent adventure film directed by Robert G. Vignola and starring William Collier Jr., Marian Nixon and Carmel Myers.<ref>Rainey p.187</ref> The film was produced and distributed by FBO Pictures, shortly before it was taken over by RKO Pictures. It was released in Britain by Ideal Films under the alternative title '''''Three Days to Live'''''.

==Synopsis== In Tsarist Russia, a Cossack general Litovski rapes the wife of an innkeeper leading to her death. Years later the innkeeper's daughter Vera seeks revenge on the general, even though she is in love with his nephew.

==Cast== * William Collier Jr. as Paul * Marian Nixon as Vera * Carmel Myers as Katherine * Demetrius Alexis as Veronoff * Alan Roscoe as Litovski * Charles Darvas as Fideleff * Barbara Bozoky as Cook

==Preservation== The film is now lost.<ref>[https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.8612 The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database:''The Red Sword'']</ref>

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==Bibliography== * Rainey, Buck. ''Sweethearts of the Sage: Biographies and Filmographies of 258 actresses appearing in Western movies''. McFarland & Company, 1992.

==External links== *{{IMDb title|0020317}} *[https://www.allmovie.com/movie/red-sword-vm78841/ allmovie.com] *[https://www.kinotv.com/page/film.php?filmcode=56991&q=0&l=en Kinotv]|The Red Sword

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