- Bolshevism on Trial
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name = Bolshevism on Trial
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director =Harley Knoles
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writer =Harry Chandlee
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starring =Robert Frazer Leslie Stowe
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released = 1919
runtime = 70 min.
country = USA
language =Silent film
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imdb_id = 0009950"Bolshevism on Trial" is a 1919 American
motion picture drama made by the Mayflower Photoplay Company and distributed through Lewis J. Selznick's Select Pictures Corporation.Directed by
Harley Knoles from ascreenplay byHarry Chandlee , it is based on the 1909 novel "Comrades" by Thomas Dixon. The seventy-minute feature film was a commercialpropaganda project about a disillusioned young soldier who yearns to live in aclassless society where all people are equal. In order to prove to the idealistic young man thatcommunism can't work, his wealthy father purchases an island off the coast ofFlorida and establishes a commune for his son to live in.Primary cast
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Robert Frazer as Captain Norman Worth
*Leslie Stowe as Herman Wolff
*Howard Truesdale as Colonel Worth
*Jim Savage as Tom Mooney
*Pinna Nesbit as Barbara Bozenta
*Ethel Wright as Catherine Wolff
*Valda Valkyrien as Elena Worth
*Mae Hopkins as Blanche
*Chief Standing Bear as SakaExternal links
*imdb title|id=0009950|title=Bolshevism on Trial
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