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On the High Seas
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Wikipedia article
'On the High Seas' is a 1922 American silent adventure film directed by Irvin Willat and written by Edward Sheldon and E. Magnus Ingleton. The film stars Dorothy Dalton, Jack Holt, Mitchell Lewis, Winter Hall, Michael Dark, Otto Brower, and William Boyd. The film was released on September 17, 1922, by Paramount Pictures.[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/O/OnTheHighSeas1922.html Progressive Silent Film List: 'On the High Seas'] at silentera.com
Plot
As described in a film magazine review, while returning from East Asia, the ship S.S. 'Andren' catches fire. Leone Deveraux is rescued by stokers Jim Dorn and Joe Polack, and the three cast off in a small boat. After three days, they sight a plague ship derelict, throw the corpses overboard, and make themselves at home. Joe desires Leone and one night during a storm attacks her, but she is rescued by Jim with whom she has fallen in love. Joe is then killed by a falling mast. The two lovers are rescued by a battleship and taken home. Leone, who is engaged to be married, loses trace of Jim until, on a day when she is on the way to the church, she is abducted by a masked man who turns out to be Jim. When it is revealed that Jim is actually a man of position and wealth, the two begin a happy relationship.
Cast
Preservation
With no prints of 'On the High Seas' located in any film archives,[http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.7970/default.html The Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: 'On the High Seas'] it is a lost film.
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