A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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The Unknown Soldier
(1926) United States of America
B&W : Eight reels / 7979 feet
Directed by Renaud Hoffman

Cast: Charles Emmett Mack [Fred Williams], Marguerite De La Motte [Mary Phillips], Henry B. Walthall [Mr. Phillips], Claire McDowell [Mrs. Phillips], George Cooper [Corporal Fogarty], Syd Crossley [Peaceful Perkins], Jess Devorska [Mike Ginsberg], Willis Marks [Reverend Doctor Mortimer]

Renaud Hoffman Productions production; distributed by Producers Distributing Corporation [A Renaud Hoffman Picturization]. / Produced by Renaud Hoffman. Scenario by E. Richard Schayer, from an adaptation by James J. Tynan of a theme suggested by Dorothy Farnum. Cinematography by Ray June. Presented by Charles R. Rogers. / © 10 May 1926 by Renaud Hoffman Productions [LP22725]. Released 30 May 1926. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / [?] Geduld-Birth p. 39 lists the original music score by Jean Sibelius for The Unknown Soldier shot in the 20s; is it this film?

Drama.

Survival status: Print exists.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: War: World War I

Listing updated: 5 February 2024.

References: Geduld-Birth p. 39 : Website-AFI.

Home video: DVD.