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Overview
In the United States, oil magnate Johnston backs Roberts, a ruthless political candidate who has his main rival murdered and rises to the governorship. When journalist Jack Lawrence exposes Roberts’s corruption, the authorities crush a workers’ strike and silence the newspaper, ultimately framing Lawrence for murder and executing him.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- December 4, 1929
- Original language
- XX
- Spoken languages
- N/A
- Countries
- Soviet Union
- Production
- Sovkino
- Cast
- Boris Azarov,Igor Chernyak,Nina Shaternikova,Gennadi Michurin,Boris Feodosyev,Pyotr Podvalniy,Yuri Lavrov,Iona Biy-Brodskiy,Georg Martin,Pavel Naumovand 7 more
- Director
- Vladimir Smidtgof
- Writer
- Vladimir Smidtgof
- Cinematography
- Vladimir Danashevsky
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
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