Three Faces East (1930)

• Director
  • Roy Del Ruth
• Writers
  • Arthur Caesar(dialogue)
  • Oliver H.P. Garrett(dialogue)
  • Anthony Paul Kelly(play)
• Stars
  • Constance Bennett
  • Erich von Stroheim
  • Anthony Bushell

  First filmed in 1926, the venerable stage melodrama Three Faces East was remade as a talkie in 1930. Set during WWI, most of the film takes place in the London home of Sir Winston Chamberlain (sic), First Lord of the Admiralty. What Sir Winston doesn't know is that his faithful butler Erich Von Stroheim is the head of a German espionage ring. What nobody knows are the true loyalties of heroine Constance Bennett, who might be a British agent, a German spy, an innocent bystander, or none of the above. The property would be filmed again in 1940 as British Intelligence, with Boris Karloff and Margaret Lindsay in the leading roles.