A distinguished young Naval officer from a celebrated military falls prey to a terrorist and his seductress accomplice bent on destroying the Panama Canal.
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Edmund Lowe as Capt. Decatur
Alma Tell as Mrs. Richard Decatur
Martha Mansfield as Peg Williams, the vamp
Bela Lugosi as Hisston
Betty Jewel as Dolores
Carl Harbaugh as Menchen
Martin Faust as Cordoba
Byron Douglas as Adm. Nevins
Theodore Babcock as Adm. Meade
George Lessey as Mr. Collins
Warren Cook as Ambassador Mendizabal
Henry Armetta as Pedro
Roger Keene as Jack Decatur
Wes Jenkins as The Butler
Florence Martin as Peg's Maid
Kate Blancke as Mrs. Nevins
J. Gordon Edwards Director
Rufus King Story
Anthony Paul Kelly Writer
Bennie Miggins Director of Photography
George W. Lane Director of Photography
William Fox Presenter
United States 18 August 1923
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15 October 1953
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01 March 1940
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24 October 1936
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27 November 1937
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These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1923:
05 November 1923
Jack Standish feels responsible for the failure of the partnership with his father and goes to the South Seas where he falls prey to alcohol, is seduced by Lullaby Lou, a vamp, and tricked by a brutal plantation owner, Gordon Van Brock.
03 June 1923
Wealthy Bruce MacAllister, goaded by his fiancée, Helen, into proving that he is a man of action rather than a pampered youth tells his estate administrator, Eugene Preston, that he is going east for a meeting.
21 May 1923
The servant girl of a wealthy young man helps him fend off criminals who are trying to steal his property.
21 September 1923
Produced by low-budget entrepreneur Phil Goldstone, this silent action melodrama starred Richard Talmadge, a German-born former stunt double for Douglas Fairbanks.
22 December 1923
One of Van Beuren Studios' Aesops Fables shorts
11 June 1923
The title is also the moniker of a renowned safe-cracker, Slippy McGee, who has always managed to evade capture until his latest job, when he is wounded.
02 September 1923
Billy Buell (William Farnum), a stranger involving himself with a long-standing mountain feud. The Benchleys and the Camps have been feuding ever since Lew Camp (J.
15 October 1923
Robert Wells is an American born in China who, unbeknownst to him, has an Oriental half-brother. Wells' uncle sends him to help Ray Williams build bridges in China.
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