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Director:
John S. Robertson
Writers:
Edmund Goulding (writer)
Joseph Hergesheimer (story)
Release Date:
22 April 1923 (USA) more
Genre:
Adventure | Drama more
Plot:
Charles Abbott is a wealthy adventurer in Cuba of the 1850s. He is in love with Narcissa but goes after La Clavel to obtain information on the Spanish... more | add synopsis
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For years it was known as Robinson's debut. more

Cast

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Richard Barthelmess ... Charles Abbott
Dorothy Gish ... La Clavel
Jetta Goudal ... La Pilar

William Powell ... Gaspar De Vaca
Mary Astor ... Narcissa Escobar
George Beranger ... Andre Escobar (as Andre Beranger)

Edward G. Robinson ... Domingo Escobar (as E.G. Robinson)
Margaret Seddon ... Carmencita Escobar
Anders Randolf ... Captain Cesar Y Santacilla
Luis Alberni ... Vincente Escobar
George Humbert ... Jaime Quintara
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Additional Details

Runtime:
80 min
Country:
USA
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Silent
Filming Locations:
Havana, Cuba

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A print of this film survives in the UCLA Film and Television Archives. more

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3 out of 3 people found the following comment useful:-
For years it was known as Robinson's debut., 23 December 2003
Author: (beck.bob@desoto.k12.mo.us) from st. louis, mo

The film was shown in November at the annual Lillian and Dorothy Gish Film Festival in Massillon, Ohio (the Gish home town). It was a newly restored print and featured an extraordinarily energetic and adventurous piano accompaniment for its entire eighty minutes. As a silent picture, it had very good performances. Robinson, then only thirty years old, was given a mustache and goatee and aged to look sixty. Was Mary Astor ever seventeen?? She was in this film and looked beautiful as Robinson's daughter. Barthelmess and Dorothy Gish were fine romantic leads, and William Powell villainous as a Cuban officer. The plot is rather involved, with spies, secret messages, and gun running amongst the Cuban patriots and Spanish army. Finally seeing this film made me marvel at the craftsmanship and detail given to such works in the cinema -- eighty years ago! (The actual film debut of Robinson was seven years earlier in 1916 as an extra in "Arms and the Woman," as revealed via an unmistakable still in the book, "The War, the West, and the Wilderness," by Kevin Brownlow.)

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