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Dead Men Tell No Tales

Dead Men Tell No Tales

19201h 10m
Adventure

Status

Released

Release

1920

Runtime

1h 10m

Storyline

"After braving the dangers of the high seas, floating for days on a hatchway, battling with sharks, dying of their thirst, George Stevenson Cole was rescued, only to be plunged into a baffling mystery."

Notorious pirate Joaquin Santos lives by the saying, "Dead Men Tell No Tales". He conspires with the prominent Squire Rattray to take over and plunder the Lady Jermyn, a ship carrying a considerable amount of gold, and then destroy the ship and kill its crew. Rattray, who is in love with Santos' daughter Eve, agrees to pick up the pirate, his crew and their loot on his private yacht after the deed is done. However, young George Cole, a passenger on the Lady Jermyn who is also in love with Eve, survives the attack and sets out to find her.

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Details

Status
Released
Runtime
1h 10m
Nov 1, 1920
Languages
No Language
Director
Tom Terriss
Tom Terriss
Production
Vitagraph Company of America
Vitagraph Company of America
Production Countries
United States of America

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