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The Royal American
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Wikipedia article
'The Royal American' is a 1927 American silent action adventure film directed by Harry Joe Brown and starring Reed Howes, Nita Martan and Billy Franey.Connelly p.404 Produced by Brown's own production company, it was distributed by the independent Rayart Pictures, the forerunner of Monogram Pictures.
Synopsis
A young coast guard becomes involved with an altercation with the crew of a ship and finds himself shanghaied aboard. The ship turns out to be gunrunning armaments to South American revolutionaries.
Cast
* Reed Howes as Jack Beaton
* Nita Martan as Gail Morton
* Billy Franey as Mike
* David Kirby as Pat
* J.P. McGowan as Capt. Burke
* Hal Salter as First Mate Dorgan
* Rosa Gore as Mother Meg
References
Bibliography
* Connelly, Robert B. 'The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2'. December Press, 1998.
* Munden, Kenneth White. 'The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1'. University of California Press, 1997.
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