False Faces (1919)
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Directors
Irvin Willat
Cast
Henry B. Walthall, Mary Anderson, Lon Chaney, Milton Ross, Thornton Edwards, William Bowman, Garry McGarry, Ernest Pasque
The story
thumb|right|thumbtime=18|The False Faces (1919) During World War I, Michael Lanyard, a professional thief known as "The Lone Wolf", is assigned to cross No-Man's-Land to steal a cylinder with important information from behind the German lines and bring it to Allied Intelligence headquarters on the British side. Once there, the British Captain Osbourne sends him on a mission to the United States, crossing the Atlantic by ship. However, German agents are out to stop him, headed by the dreaded Karl Eckstrom, the man who was responsible for murdering Lanyard's sister and her family.
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