The Great Shadow (film)

The Great Shadow is a 1920 American silent drama film directed by Harley Knoles and starring Tyrone Power Sr., Donald Hall and Dorothy Bernard.

The making of the film is the subject of the Canadian play of the same name, written by Alex Poch-Golden.

Plot
Jim McDonald, the head of a union, struggles against a group of Bolsheviks led by Klimoff. A strike is called and McDonald's child is killed due to sabotage. Elsie, daughter of the capitalist Donald Alexander, is kidnapped by the Bolsheviks, but is saved by her lover, a secret agent.

Cast

 * Tyrone Power Sr. as Jim McDonald
 * Donald Hall as Donald Alexander
 * Dorothy Bernard as Elsie Alexander
 * Jack Rutherford as Bob Sherwood
 * Louis Stern as Klimoff
 * E. Emerson as Greek leader
 * Eugene Hornboestel as Frank Shea

Production
The film was sponsored by the Canadian Reconstruction Association. A Vickers factory in Montreal and a film studio in Trenton, Ontario were used for filming. Union members at the factory were used as unpaid extras.