Mockery

Mockery
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Directed by	Benjamin Christensen
Produced by	Erich Pommer
Written by	Stig Esbern (story) Joseph Farnham (titles) Bradley King (continuity)
Starring	Lon Chaney Barbara Bedford Ricardo Cortez Emily Fitzroy
Cinematography	Merritt B. Gerstad
Edited by	John W. English
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release dates	August 13, 1927 (1927-08-13)
Running time	75 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent

Mockery (1927) is an American film about the Russian Revolution starring Lon Chaney. The movie was the second film made in Hollywood by Danish director Benjamin Christensen and stars Chaney as a Siberian peasant who comes to the aid of a countess (played by Barbara Bedford) who is threatened by the encroaching insurgency.

Release

Mockery received mixed reviews when it was first released, and is regarded as one of Chaney's weaker films of his MGM period (1924-1930).

Cast

• Lon Chaney - Sergei
• Barbara Bedford - Countess Tatiana Alexandrova
• Ricardo Cortez - Capt. Dimitri
• Mack Swain - Vladimir Gaidaroff
• Emily Fitzroy - Mrs. Gaidaroff
• Charles Puffy - Ivan, the Gatekeeper
• Kai Schmidt - Butler
• Johnny Mack Brown - Russian Officer
• Albert Conti - Military Commandant at Novokursk (uncredited)
• Jules Cowles - Peasant who robs Tatiana (uncredited)
• Frank Leigh - Outlaw Peasant in Cabin (uncredited)
• Russ Powell - Man taking Sergei to Ivan (uncredited)
• Buddy Rae - Russian Soldier (uncredited)
• Michael Visaroff - Cossack whipping Sergei (uncredited)

Preservation status

The film was thought to have been lost until the mid-1970s. George Eastman House has a print.

External links

• Mockery at IMDb
• Mockery at the TCM Movie Database
• The Lon Chaney Home Page
• Apocalypse Later (Review)