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1927 film by W. S. Van Dyke

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Foreign Devils
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Directed by	W. S. Van Dyke
Screenplay by	Marian Ainslee
Story by	Marian Ainslee Ruth Cummings Peter B. Kyne
Starring	Tim McCoy Claire Windsor
Cinematography	Clyde De Vinna
Edited by	Sam Zimbalist
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date	September 3, 1927 (1927-09-03)
Running time	70 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Foreign Devils is a 1927 American silent drama film directed by W. S. Van Dyke and starring Tim McCoy and Claire Windsor, which was released by MGM on September 3, 1927.

Plot

Captain Robert Kelly (McCoy) while attached to the American Embassy in Peking at the time of the Boxer Rebellion befriends Lady Patricia Rutledge (Windsor) and rescues her from the priests of a Chinese temple that she has gone to visit. He then asks a friend to escort her to safety and battles the Chinese in order to give them time to escape. Eventually he brings news or the approach of the Eight-Nation Alliance to the barricade.

Cast

Tim McCoy as Capt. Robert Kelly
Claire Windsor as Lady Patricia Rutledge
Cyril Chadwick as Lord Vivien Cholmondely
Frank Currier as U.S. Minister Conger
Emily Fitzroy as Mrs. Conger
Lawson Butt as Sir Claude
Sôjin as Lama priest (as Sojin)
Frank Chew as Prince Tuan

Crew

Cedric Gibbons - Art Director
David Townsend - Art Director
René Hubert - Costume Design

References

Motion Picture News, April 28, 1928, p. 1348

External links

Foreign Devils at IMDb
Posters and stills at clairewindsor.weebly.com

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Films directed by W. S. Van Dyke

The Land of Long Shadows (1917)
The Range Boss (1917)
Open Places (1917)
Men of the Desert (1917)
Gift O' Gab (1917)
Sadie Goes to Heaven (1917)
The Lady of the Dugout (1918)
The Hawk's Trail (1919)
Daredevil Jack (1920)
Double Adventure (1921)
The Avenging Arrow (1921)
The Boss of Camp 4 (1922)
Forget Me Not (1922)
White Eagle (1922)
According to Hoyle (1922)
The Destroying Angel (1923)
The Little Girl Next Door (1923)
The Miracle Makers (1923)
Half-A-Dollar-Bill (1924)
The Beautiful Sinner (1924)
Loving Lies (1924)
Winner Take All (1924)
Gold Heels (1924)
The Timber Wolf (1925)
The Trail Rider (1925)
Ranger of the Big Pines (1925)
Barriers Burned Away (1925)
Hearts and Spurs (1925)
The Desert's Price (1925)
The Gentle Cyclone (1926)
War Paint (1926)
Winners of the Wilderness (1927)
California (1927)
Eyes of the Totem (1927)
The Heart of the Yukon (1927)
Foreign Devils (1927)
Spoilers of the West (1927)
The Adventurer (1928)
Under the Black Eagle (1928)
Wyoming (1928)
White Shadows in the South Seas (1928)
The Pagan (1929)
Guilty Hands (1931)
Never the Twain Shall Meet (1931)
Trader Horn (1931)
The Cuban Love Song (1931)
Tarzan the Ape Man (1932)
Night Court (1932)
Penthouse (1933)
Eskimo (1933)
The Prizefighter and the Lady (1933)
Laughing Boy (1934)
Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
The Thin Man (1934)
Hide-Out (1934)
Forsaking All Others (1934)
I Live My Life (1935)
Naughty Marietta (1935)
Rose Marie (1936)
San Francisco (1936)
His Brother's Wife (1936)
The Devil Is a Sissy (1936)
Love on the Run (1936)
After the Thin Man (1936)
They Gave Him a Gun (1937)
Personal Property (1937)
Rosalie (1937)
Marie Antoinette (1938)
Sweethearts (1938)
Stand Up and Fight (1939)
It's a Wonderful World (1939)
Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever (1939)
Another Thin Man (1939)
I Take This Woman (1940)
New Moon (1940)
I Love You Again (1940)
Bitter Sweet (1940)
Rage in Heaven (1941)
The Feminine Touch (1941)
Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
Dr. Kildare's Victory (1942)
I Married an Angel (1942)
Cairo (1942)
Journey for Margaret (1942)

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