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Two Arabian Knights
Two Arabian Knights (1927) is an American comedy film, directed by Lewis Milestone and starring William Boyd, Mary Astor, and Louis Wolheim. A silent film, "Two Arabian Knights" was produced by Howard Hughes and was distributed by United Artists. The screenwriters were James T. O'Donohue, Wallace Smith, and George Marion Jr.
The film won the only Academy Award for Best Comedy Direction in 1929. The next year, AMPAS merged the categories Best Director of a Comedy Picture and Best Director of
a home run at the game Harold attends. Meusel's at bat was not filmed for the movie but was taken from newsreel footage.
Awards and nominations.
Ted Wilde, the director of the film, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director of a Comedy, which was used for only the 1st Academy Awards. He lost to Lewis Milestone, the director of "Two Arabian Knights" .
Production.
Location shooting for the Coney Island scenes cost a reported $150,000.
Cast.