"HOBART BOSWORTH In the most astounding and most startling drama of the deep sea ever filmed."08 June 1920Drama91 mins
A widely respected deep-sea diver is approached by a ring of con artists who want him to be the front man for a phony scheme to recover gold from sunken ships. When he refuses, they send a sexy young woman to seduce his son, and then blackmail the father into going along with their scheme.
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The titular adventurer, after defying his parents to go to sea, survives a shipwreck and becomes a castaway on a deserted island for nearly thirty years, learning to build a new life from scratch, discovering companionship with a native man he names Friday, and eventually returning to civilisation a changed man, finding wealth and new challenges.
Based on true events, an American submarine collides into a Soviet sub of the coast of America and an ensuing standoff occurs that could lead to total annihilation.
In 1896, three survivors of a whaling ship-wreck in the Canadian Arctic are saved and adopted by an Eskimo tribe but frictions arise when the three start misbehaving.
Clay Whipple is convicted of murdering the governor following an incident involving a cat's eye pin. Whipple is sentenced to death, but a mentalist named Psychic Jack believes he is innocent since Whipple had been hypnotized at the time of the murder.
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"Below the Surface" (1920)
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Below the Surface
Director: Irvin V. Willat | Production Country: United States | Year: 1920 | Production Company: Thomas H. Ince Productions (United States) | FLM6424 | Film from ...
Below the surface (1920 USA virados) Bajo la superficie
Película de aventuras submarinas protagonizada por Hobart Bosworth y dirigida por Irvin Willat. Copia europa con virados conservada en Holanda por Eye ...
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