Mockery (1927 film)
Mockery 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 aids a countess who is threatened by the encroaching insurgency.Reception
Mockery received mixed reviews when it was first released and is still regarded as one of Chaney's weaker films of his MGM period.Cast
- Lon Chaney as Sergei
- Barbara Bedford as Countess Tatiana Alexandrova
- Ricardo Cortez as Capt. Dimitri
- Mack Swain as Vladimir Gaidaroff
- Emily Fitzroy as Mrs. Gaidaroff
- Charles Puffy as Ivan, the Gatekeeper
- Kai Schmidt as Butler
- Johnny Mack Brown as Russian Officer
- Albert Conti as Military Commandant at Novokursk
- Jules Cowles as Peasant who robs Tatiana
- Frank Leigh as Outlaw Peasant in Cabin
- Russ Powell as Man taking Sergei to Ivan
- Buddy Rae as Russian Soldier
- Michael Visaroff as Cossack whipping Sergei
Preservation status
The film was thought to have been lost until the mid-1970s. George Eastman House has a print.
