Name: Anton the Terrible
Released: 1916
Cast: Theodore Roberts, Anita King, Horace B. Carpenter, Harrison Ford, Edythe Chapman

Cast & Crew

Film Details

Also Known As

The Austrian Spy

Release Date

Oct 5, 1916

Premiere Information

not available

Production Company

Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Co.

Distribution Company

Paramount Pictures Corp.

Country

United States

Screenplay Information

Based on the short story "Anton the Terrible" by Thomas H. Uzzell in The Saturday Evening Post (8 Jan 1916).

Technical Specs

Sound

Silent

Color

Black and White

Film Length

5 reels

Synopsis

When his sister Olga is betrayed by General Stanovitch, Anton Kazoff, a cossack, swears vengeance. Fifteen years later, Kazoff, cruel and embittered, has become chief of the Okrana, the Russian secret police. Following the outbreak of World War I, Grand Duke Feodor Ivanovitch orders Kazoff to identify and apprehend a German spy, unaware that Kazoff himself is the traitor. When Kazoff learns that Stanovitch's daughter Vera loves army officer David Burkin, he kills Stanovitch and accuses David of the crime. In prison, David discovers Kazoff's duplicity and secretly informs Vera, who has been arrested as an anarchist. The sweethearts are finally released, whereupon they inform the grand duke of Kazoff's treason. The spy's mother tries to assume the blame, but when Ivanovitch commands him to shoot her, Kazoff instead shoots himself.