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Code of the Sea (1924)

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Film details

Featuring

Rod La Rocque Jacqueline Logan George Fawcett
Country

USA
Year

1924
Genre

Drama
Type

Film
Category

Fiction

Synopsis

Bruce McDow, a sailor is cursed by an overwhelming fear. His father had deserted his post on a lightship in a storm, and this haunts him. The girl he loves, Jenny Hayden, gets him a post in this same lightship, and hopes that responsibility for others will cure him. During a storm the yacht on which Jenny is cruising is wrecked on the reef. Bruce goes to her rescue, and the presence of the lightship saves a big liner from disaster. Story: Byron Morgan. Screenplay: Bertram Millhauser.

Cast & Credits

Cast
- - Bruce McDow
    
    Rod La Rocque
  - jenny Hayden
    
    Jacqueline Logan
  - Captain Hayden
    
    George Fawcett
  - Ewart Radcliffe
    
    Maurice B. Flynn
  - Captain Jonas
    
    Luke Cosgrave
  - Mrs McDow
    
    Lillian Leighton
  - John Swayne
    
    Sam Appel
  - [extra at party]
    
    George Lewis
  - [.]
    
    Tom London
Credits
- Unknown:
  - Director
    
    Victor Fleming
  - Production Company
    
    Famous Players-Lasky Corporation
  - Scenario by
    
    Bertram Millhauser
  - Based on a story by
    
    Byron Morgan
  - Camera
    
    Charles E. Schoenbaum

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