Two Arabian Knights (1927) on Netflix
TV-G19271h 32mAdventureComedyRomance
In World War I, W. Daingerfield Phelps III and his sergeant, Peter O'Gaffney, are captured by the Germans. They escape in Arab robes, reach a ship, and pull Mirza from the water.
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Plot summary
During the First World War, American soldier W. Daingerfield Phelps III and his sergeant, Peter O'Gaffney, share a shell hole in no man's land, where Phelps seizes the chance to punch the man he has resented since training camp. Germans capture them mid-brawl. In a prison camp they become friends, and they break out in white Arab robes taken from prisoners, which hide them against snow. Retaken and mistaken for Arabs, they board a train toward Constantinople, leap off, and hide in a hay wagon hoisted onto a ship bound for Arabia. Found at sea, they settle their passage with the skipper. A small boat capsizes nearby, and Phelps dives after Mirza, an Arabian woman; O'Gaffney pulls them both out. The soldiers and the skipper court her.
Cast
- Jean Vachonas Mirza's Maid Servant
- David Cavendishas The Emir's Advisor (as Denis D'Auburn)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Two Arabian Knights (1927)
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- The film was long thought lost before being located in Howard Hughes' own film collection after his death. Two Arabian Knights was then preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, in 2016.
- The film won the only Academy Award for Best Comedy Direction ever handed out, in 1929. The next year AMPAS merged Best Director of a Comedy Picture and Best Director of a Dramatic Picture into a single Best Director category, so it was never awarded again.
