A wrongly convicted English gentleman goes from galley slave to pirate captain.
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Milton Sills | ... | Sir Oliver Tressilian | |
| Enid Bennett | ... | Lady Rosamund Godolphin | |
| Lloyd Hughes | ... | Lionel Tressilian | |
| Wallace Beery | ... | Captain Jasper Leigh | |
| Marc McDermott | ... | Sir John Killigrew (as Mark MacDermott) | |
| Wallace MacDonald | ... | Peter Godolphin (as Wallace Mac Donald) | |
| Bert Woodruff | ... | Nick | |
| Claire Du Brey | ... | Siren | |
| Lionel Belmore | ... | Justice Anthony Baine | |
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Christina Montt | ... | The Infanta of Spain (as Christine Montt) |
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Albert Prisco | ... | Yusuf-Ben-Moktar |
| Frank Currier | ... | Asad-ed-Din - Basha of Algiers | |
| William Collier Jr. | ... | Marsak | |
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Medea Radzina | ... | Fenzileh |
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Fred DeSilva | ... | Ali (as Fred De Silva) |
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The adventures of Oliver Tressilian, who goes from English gentry to galley slave to captain of a Moorish fighting ship, all the while trying to regain his lady love. Follows the novel, unlike the 1940 movie of the same name. Written by Robert Tonsing <rtonsing@ti.com>
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predator in title | bare chested male | homosexual subtext | romantic rivalry | bare chested male bondage |Taglines:
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Country:
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EnglishRelease Date:
14 June 1924 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
A Águia dos Mares See more »Filming Locations:
Santa Catalina Island, Channel Islands, California, USAEdit
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Gross USA:
$780,187, 31 December 1925Company Credits
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Runtime:
(1994 restoration print)Sound Mix:
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Black and WhiteAspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1
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(1924) (uncredited)
Music by Modest Altschuler
Words by John LeRoy Johnston
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In the 1925 movie The Lost World, there is a shot of Piccadilly Circus in London in which the London Pavilion has a neon sign advertising FRANK LLOYD'S "SEA HAWK". This is seen after the intertitle "Later -- In London", which immediately follows the expedition's South America adventure. See more »Quotes
Captain Jasper Leigh: Give me your word ye'll make no quarrel wi' me, and I'll cast ye loose.See more »
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Sea Hawk(1924) (uncredited)
Music by Modest Altschuler
Words by John LeRoy Johnston
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This particular adaption of Rafael Sabatini's swashbuckling novel remains faithful to the original story. For those of us who are fans of the Errol Flynn version of The Sea Hawk and I consider it his best film, it has no resemblance to this silent film whatsoever.
In a way that's good because both versions can truly stand on their own merits. Milton Sills is the lead in this version, playing Sir Oliver Tressilian, prosperous landowner in Cornwall. He's looking to wed Enid Bennett who is the daughter of an adjacent estate, but Sills has two problems, her brother Wallace McDonald who doesn't think Sills's family is good enough and Sills's half brother Lloyd Hughes who wants Bennett for himself.
After this The Sea Hawk becomes a mixed version of The Master of Ballantrae and Ben-Hur. Sills is framed for McDonald's murder and captured by pirates who sell him to the Spaniards as a galley slave and then he gets rescued by the Moors.
When Sills gets rescued by the Moors it's his good fortune that the Pasha of Algiers takes a liking to him and he becomes their top pirate with the fearsome name of Sakr El-Bahr, The Sea Hawk.
The rest of the film follows a similar path of Sabatini's other work Captain Blood.
Warner Brothers when they remade The Sea Hawk though they didn't use the story certainly did retain several of the battle scenes which the viewer will immediately recognize. This version is every bit as grand and grandiose as the better known sound film. Sills and Bennett do indeed remind one of Errol Flynn and Brenda Marshall. And Sills in treading on territory that Douglas Fairbanks staked out delivers a fine performance, though without the flair for dramatics that Fairbanks had.
I'm definitely glad this silent classic is not lost.