Two Arabian Knights (1927):
Considered Milestones most outstanding work during the silent era, Two Arabian Knights was inspired by the Anderson–Stallings stage play What Price Glory? (1924), and director Raoul Walsh’s 1924 screen adaption.
The first film in a four-year contract with Howard Hughes’ The Caddo Company—and his only film of 1927— it garnered Milestone an Academy Award for best comedy direction in 1927, prevailing over Charlie Chaplin’s The Circus (1927).
Set during World War I, doughboys William Boyd and Louis Wolheim, and their love-object Mary Astor form the triangle.
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