Uncharted Seas
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| Directed by | Wesley Ruggles |
| Written by | George Elwood Jenks |
| Based on | “The Uncharted Sea” by John Fleming Wilson |
| Cinematography | John F. Seitz |
| Distributed by | Metro Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 6 reels |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
Uncharted Seas is a 1921 American silent romance drama film directed by Wesley Ruggles and starring Alice Lake, Carl Gerard, and Rudolph Valentino.
This is now a lost film.[1][2]
Plot
[edit]As described in a film magazine,[3] after her drunken husband Tom Eastman (Gerard) brings home three cabaret women, Lucretia (Lake) can no longer bear the abuse and turns to arctic explorer Frank Underwood (Valentino), who has long loved her and promised to come whenever she needs his help. Urging her husband to become a man and do something worth while, Lucretia goes with him to the North seas in search of a treasure ship. Tom becomes panic stricken and turns back, while she goes on with Frank, who is on the same mission in his own ship. The two fight against temptation and win, and when their ship is destroyed on the ice they set off to civilization with a dog sled. They are saved by a government cruiser.
Cast
[edit]- Alice Lake as Lucretia Eastman
- Carl Gerard as Tom Eastman
- Rudolph Valentino as Frank Underwood
- Robert Alden as Fred Turner
- Charles Hill Mailes as Old Jim Eastman (credited as Charles Mailes)
- Rhea Haines as Ruby Lawton
References
[edit]- ^ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Uncharted Seas
- ^ Progressive Silent Film List: Uncharted Seas at silentera.com
- ^ "Reviews: Uncharted Seas". Exhibitors Herald. 12 (19). New York City: Exhibitors Herald Company: 74. May 7, 1921.
External links
[edit]
- Uncharted Seas at IMDb
- Synopsis at AllMovie
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- 1921 films
- American silent feature films
- 1921 romantic drama films
- Lost American romantic drama films
- Films directed by Wesley Ruggles
- American black-and-white films
- Metro Pictures films
- 1921 lost films
- 1920s American films
- Silent American romantic drama films
- 1920s English-language films
- English-language romantic drama films
- 1920s silent drama film stubs