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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24 October 1936
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01 January 1983
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11 February 2001
A British spy is banished to Panama after having an affair with an ambassador's mistress. Once there he makes connection with a local tailor with a nefarious past and connections to all of the top political and gangster figures in Panama.
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”.
21 June 1986
When young Kathleen makes a promise to Keith Cameron during World War One, that no matter what happens they will meet again one day, she little realises what the consequences could be.
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Bela scores high marks as a saboteur in his 1st American film. Also starring Edmund Lowe. Enhanced with music sound effects and the voices of Lugosi and ...
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These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1923:
14 May 1923
The plot of this silent western short is unknown and it is presumably lost.
10 October 1923
A gypsy dancer becomes involved with some smugglers in Spain.
01 March 1923
Colonel Barclay is found dead and his wife is arrested for the murder, but Holmes is convinced a missing door key will reveal the true killer.
14 June 1923
Felix spots a fisherman on his way to his fishing spot, and figures he can follow the guy and grab a quick lunch by stealing his catch.
01 October 1923
Inventor Peter Marchmont has discovered a purple light that renders the user invisible. On his release from prison, Marchmont, disguised as Victor Cromport, uses the light to revenge himself against his former wife, Jewel, and her partner, James Dawson, who framed him for theft.
10 January 1923
A mounted police inspector battles not only a gang of opium smugglers but also a haughty society bele
23 April 1923
"Katy" Didd holds up the stage in which his sweetheart, Alice Mason, is traveling to her wedding to Prince Tetlow, to whom her guardian insists that she be married.
22 February 1923
When the old, wealthy Doctor Schön takes Lulu under his wing, he has no idea that she will be his certain death.
13 October 1923
Dan O'Hara, known as "Big Dan," returns from the war, and finding that his wife has left him, turns his home into a boys' camp and begins to train boxers.
30 June 1923
Temporary Marriage is a 1923 American silent drama film directed by Lambert Hillyer and starring Kenneth Harlan, Mildred Davis, and Myrtle Stedman.
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