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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11 February 2001
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15 October 1953
A group of communist spies plan to blow up an essential commercial artery, the Panama Canal. To this end, they have kidnapped a nuclear scientist and are traveling by steamship to the coast of South America.
01 March 1940
Charlie impersonates an employee of the U.S. government to foil an espionage plot which would destroy part of the Panama Canal, trapping a Navy fleet on its way to the Pacific after maneuvers in the Atlantic.
04 September 1942
Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact he has no loyalty to his home country after he is court-martialed out of the army and boards a Japanese ship for the Orient in late 1941.
27 November 1937
Butch Rogers and Sock McGillis are old submarine hands stationed in Panama. On land, Butch and Sock battle over pretty Ann Sawyer.
01 January 1981
Afro-Antillean workers hired for the construction of the Panama Canal are brought from their homes to work in conditions that were not those promised.
21 November 2018
Ferdinand de Lesseps, known as “The Great Frenchman”, will embark in the greatest adventure of his life: To unite the Pacific and Atlantic oceans through a Canal in the Isthmus of Panama – without knowing that this will cost him his reputation, thousands of innocent lives and the biggest financial scandal of all time, up to that point: the famous “Scandal of Panama”.
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05 November 1923
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02 October 1923
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22 February 1923
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29 July 1923
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11 June 1923
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27 September 1923
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15 April 1923
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