(Frank Lloyd, US 1924, 123 min., 35mm)
Based on another swashbuckling novel from master of the form Rafael Sabatini (Scaramouche, Captain Blood), Milton Sills is Sir Oliver Tressilian, a baronet shanghaied, sold into slavery on a ship bound for the New World, and accused of murdering Peter Godolphin (Wallace MacDonald), his fianceé’s brother. In truth, Oliver’s brother Lionel (Lloyd Hughes) was behind everything. After falling in with the Spanish and then the Moors, Oliver becomes the corsair “Hawk-of-the-Sea,” and works his way back to England where his brother, fianceé, and justice await. Frank Lloyd (who a decade later would direct Mutiny on the Bounty) masterfully directs this adventure on the high seas.
Live Piano Accompaniment by Philip Carli
Original 35mm photochemical restoration conducted by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Library of Congress, in cooperation with the Národní Filmovy Archive
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