There is hunger in Siberia during the Russian Civil War. One day while dim-witted peasant Sergei is searching corpses for food, he meets a young woman looking for the town of Novokursk. She asks Sergei to help her get there, and to tell anyone they might meet that he is her husband.
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Lon Chaney as Sergei
Barbara Bedford as Countess Tatiana Alexandrova
Ricardo Cortez as Dimitri
Emily Fitzroy as Mrs. Gaidaroff
Mack Swain as Vladimir Gaidaroff
Károly Huszár as Ivan
Kai Schmidt as Butler
Johnny Mack Brown as Russian Officer (uncredited)
Albert Conti as Military Commandant at Novokursk (uncredited)
Jules Cowles as Peasant Who Robs Tatiana (uncredited)
Frank Leigh as Outlaw Peasant in Cabin (uncredited)
Russ Powell as Man Taking Sergei to Ivan (uncredited)
Bud Rae as Russian Soldier (uncredited)
Michael Visaroff as Cossack Whipping Sergei (uncredited)
Benjamin Christensen Director
Merritt B. Gerstad Director of Photography
Erich Pommer Producer
Alexander Toluboff Art Direction
Gilbert Clark Costume Design
Cedric Gibbons Art Direction
John English Editor
Stig Esbern Story
Benjamin Christensen Story
Bradley King Writer
United States 13 August 1927
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The Japanese equivalent of penny dreadfuls glorifying Jesse James, A Diary of Chuji’s Travels gives a unique gloss to the tale of Chuji Kunisada, the legendary bakuto (or gambler, the precursors to modern-day yakuza).
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