''The Coward'' is a 1927 American silent

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produced by

Robertson-Cole Pictures Corporation Film Booking Offices of America (FBO), registered as FBO Pictures Corp., was an American film studio of the silent era, a midsize producer and distributor of mostly low-budget films. The business began in 1918 as Robertson-Cole, an Anglo-Americ ...

(aka Joseph P. Kennedy) and stars

Warner Baxter Warner Leroy Baxter (March 29, 1889 – May 7, 1951) was an American film actor from the 1910s to the 1940s. Baxter is known for his role as the Cisco Kid in the 1928 film ''In Old Arizona'', for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor at ...

and

Sharon Lynn Sharon Lynn (born D'Auvergne Sharon Lindsay, April 9, 1901 – May 26, 1963) was an American actress and singer. She began playing in silent films but enjoyed her biggest success in the early sound years of motion pictures before fading away i ...

. It was directed by Al Raboch.

Cast

as Clinton Philbrook *

as Alicia Van Orden *

Freeman Wood Freeman Wood (July 1, 1896 – February 15, 1956) was an American character actor of the silent and sound film eras. Biography Born in 1896 in Denver Denver () is a consolidated city and county, the capital, and most populous cit ...

as Leigh Morlock *

Raoul Paoli __NOTOC__ Raoul is a French variant of the male given name Ralph or Rudolph, and a cognate of Raul. Raoul may also refer to: Given name * Raoul Berger, American legal scholar * Raoul Bova, Italian actor * Radulphus Brito (Raoul le Breton, die ...

as Pierre Bechard * Byron Douglas as Darius Philbrook *

Charlotte Stevens Charlotte Stevens (1902–1946) was an American film actress of the silent era playing a mixture of lead and supporting roles.Munden p.506 Selected filmography * ''Mine to Keep'' (1923) * '' The Tornado'' (1924) * ''The Mirage'' (1924) * ''One ...

as Marie * Hugh Thomas as Maitland

Preservation

With no prints of ''The Coward'' located in any film archives,The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: ''The Coward''
/ref> it is a

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References

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* * 1927 films American silent feature films Film Booking Offices of America films Films based on short fiction 1927 drama films Silent American drama films American black-and-white films Lost American drama films 1927 lost films 1920s American films {{1920s-silent-drama-film-stub