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The Crown of Lies

10.0 50 mins Drama   Romance   1926
Famous Players-Lasky Corporation  
Director(s): Dimitri Buchowetzki

Release Date: 27 Sat, Mar 1926

Olga Kriga, a New York boarding house maid, is loved by John Knight, an automobile salesman, asks her to wed him. One day in a delicatessen, she is seen by a foreigner, who immediately hails her as "Queen." He tells her the faithful cabinet is waiting nearby. The foreigner is a servant of the former prime minister and he insists that she is the long lost ruler of Sylvania, a small European country. Olga decides to pose as that lost queen of Sylvania, and travels to that Balkan country accompanied by Knight. Count Mirko, knowing her return will cause usurper troubles, plans to make it appear beneficial to be rid of Olga. However, the people of the country acclaim her as queen and, after a revolt, put her on the throne. Happiness has been restored to Sylvania, but Olga decides that she no longer to pose as a royal and returns to New York with Knight. A lost film.

Casts of The Crown of Lies

Pola Negri

as Olga Kriga

Noah Beery

as Count Mirko

Robert Ames

as John Knight

Charles A. Post

as Karl

Arthur Hoyt

as Fritz

Michael Vavitch

as Vorski

Cissy Fitzgerald

as Leading Lady

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