The Great Deception

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. A New York Times review considered "this photoplay possesses an element of mystery and suspense".

Synopsis
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.

Cast

 * Ben Lyon as Cyril Mansfield
 * Aileen Pringle as Lois
 * Basil Rathbone as Rizzio
 * Sam Hardy as Handy
 * Charlotte Walker as Mrs. Mansfield
 * Amelia Summerville as Lady Jane
 * Hubert Wilke as General Von Frankenhauser
 * Lucien Prival as Von Markow
 * Lucius J. Henderson as Burton
 * Mark Gonzales as Maxwell