| The Great Deception | |
| Director: | Howard Higgin |
| Producer: | Robert Kane |
| Starring: | Ben Lyon Aileen Pringle Basil Rathbone |
| Cinematography: | Ernest Haller |
| Studio: | Robert Kane Productions |
| Distributor: | First National Pictures |
| Runtime: | 6 reels |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | Silent (English intertitles) |
The Great Deception is a 1926 American silent drama film starring Basil Rathbone, Ben Lyon, and Aileen Pringle. It is based on the 1915 novel The Yellow Dove by George Gibbs about World War I era espionage, previously adapted as the 1919 film Shadows of Suspicion. This film is currently a lost film.[1] [2] [3] [4] A New York Times review considered "this photoplay possesses an element of mystery and suspense".[5]
It portrays the activities of a British undercover agent Cryil Mansfield, who is in Germany as part of a plan to feed false intelligence to the German high command. His mission is threatened by Rizzio, a double agent who uses Mansfield's American lover Lois as part of a scheme to entrap and execute him.