Soldiers of Fortune (1919 film)

Soldiers of Fortune
Film still with Norman Kerry and Anna Q. Nilsson
Directed byAllan Dwan
Written byAllan Dwan
Based onSoldiers of Fortune
1897 novel
by Richard Harding Davis
Produced byMayflower Photoplay Company
StarringWallace Beery
Distributed byRealart Pictures Inc.
Release date
  • November 22, 1919 (1919-11-22)
Running time
70 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Soldiers of Fortune is a lost[1] 1919 American silent drama film directed by Allan Dwan and starring Wallace Beery. The film is based on the 1897 novel of the same name by Richard Harding Davis. The film was produced by the Mayflower Photoplay Company[2] Richard Harding Davis's novel that inspired the film had already been brought to the screen in 1914 by William F. Haddock; that version of Soldiers of Fortune starred Dustin Farnum. The subject of both the 1914 and 1919 films are based on the Spanish–American War. The 1919 film was shot on the San Diego Fairgrounds at Balboa Park in San Diego, California. Distributed by Realart Pictures, the film was released in American theaters on November 22, 1919.

  1. ^ "Soldiers Of Fortune". June 1, 1919 – via memory.loc.gov.
  2. ^ "Soldiers of Fortune (1919) - IMDb" – via www.imdb.com.