Editing Victor McLaglen (section)

===''What Price Glory?'' and stardom===
[[File:WhatPriceGlory.jpg|250px|thumb|[[Edmund Lowe]], [[Dolores del Río]], and McLaglen in ''[[What Price Glory? (1926 film)|What Price Glory?]]'' (1926)]]
McLaglen was the top-billed [[leading man]] in director [[Raoul Walsh]]'s First World War classic ''[[What Price Glory? (1926 film)|What Price Glory?]]'' (1926) with [[Edmund Lowe]] and [[Dolores del Río]]. The film was a huge success, making over $2 million, and Fox signed McLaglen to a long-term contract.<ref name="box">{{cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article11816878|title=WHICH CINEMA FILMS HAVE EARNED THE MOST MONEY SINCE 1914?|newspaper=[[The Argus (Melbourne)|The Argus]]|issue=30,427|location=Victoria, Australia|date=4 March 1944|access-date=18 December 2017|page=3 (The Argus Weekend magazine)|via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>

Fox put McLaglen in ''[[The Loves of Carmen (1927 film)|The Loves of Carmen]]'' (1927) with del Río, directed by Walsh. He was top-billed in ''[[Mother Machree]]'' (1928), directed by Ford. He was top-billed in ''[[A Girl in Every Port (1928 film)|A Girl in Every Port]]'' (1928), co-starring [[Robert Armstrong (actor)|Robert Armstrong]] and [[Louise Brooks]]. He starred in ''[[Hangman's House]]'' (1928) for Ford, a romantic drama set in Ireland, and ''[[The River Pirate]]'' (1928), and ''[[Captain Lash]]'' (1929). McLaglen then made two films for Ford: ''[[Strong Boy]]'' (1929) and ''[[The Black Watch (film)|The Black Watch]]'' (1929).<ref>{{cite news|id={{ProQuest|104965087}}|title= VICTOR McLAGLEN'S FILM|date=19 May 1929|work=The New York Times}}</ref>