Two Arabian Nights
(Movies) WhenSeptember 21, 2014 <m>(Sunday)m>WhereMuseum of Modern Art / MOMA11 West 53rd Street
New York City, New York 10019 (US)
Website: http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/film_screenings/21945
Event Details
Two Arabian Knights
1927. USA. Lewis Milestone. 90 min.
Sunday, September 21, 2014, 6:00 p.m.
Theater 1 (The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1), T1
Two Arabian Knights
1927. USA. Directed by Lewis Milestone. Art direction by William Cameron Menzies. With William Boyd, Louis Wolheim, Mary Astor, Boris Karloff. Almost a clone of What Price Glory, the film depicts two Yanks who escape from a German prison camp disguised as Arabs and wind up in Jaffa, where Boyd (who would later become Hopalong Cassidy) romances the beautiful young princess (Mary Astor). Wolheim was later directed by Milestone in All Quiet on the Western Front. Silent, with musical track. 90 min.