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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Under the Black Eagle
(1928) United States of America
B&W : Six reels / 5901 feet
Directed by W.S. Van Dyke

Cast: Ralph Forbes [Karl von Zom], Marceline Day [Margareta], Bert Roach [Hans Schmidt], William Fairbanks [Ulrich Muller], Marc MacDermott (Marc McDermott) [Colonel Luden], Flash the dog

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation. / Scenario by Bradley King, from a screen story by Norman Houston. Wardrobe design by Lucia Coulter. Cinematography by Hendrik Sartov. Film editor, Ben Lewis. Intertitles written by Madeleine Ruthven. / © 24 March 1928 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation [LP25175]. Released 24 March 1928. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Silent film.

Drama: World War I.

Survival status: Print exists in the Eye Film Instituut Nederland film archive.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 30 November 2023.

References: ClasIm-221 p. C19; ClasIm-301 p. 47 : Website-AFI; Website-ASFFDb.