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The Royal American

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The Royal American
Directed byHarry Joe Brown
Written byGeorge W. Pyper
Produced byHarry Joe Brown
StarringReed Howes
Nita Martan
Billy Franey
CinematographyRoss Fisher
Production
company
Harry J. Brown Productions
Distributed byRayart Pictures
Release date
  • July 1927 (1927-07)
Running time
50 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguagesSilent
English intertitles

The Royal American is a 1927 American silent action adventure film directed by Harry Joe Brown and starring Reed Howes, Nita Martan and Billy Franey.[1] Produced by Brown's own production company, it was distributed by the independent Rayart Pictures, the forerunner of Monogram Pictures.

Synopsis

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A young coast guard becomes involved with an altercation with the crew of a ship and finds himself shanghaied aboard. The ship turns out to be gunrunning armaments to South American revolutionaries.

Cast

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References

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  1. ^ Connelly p.404

Bibliography

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  • Connelly, Robert B. The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2. December Press, 1998.
  • Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.
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