Old Ironsides
Cast & Crew
James Cruze
Esther Ralston
Wallace Beery
George Bancroft
Charles Farrell
Johnny Walker
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Synopsis
Following a fiery patriotic speech by Pinckney in Philadelphia before a gathering of young boys, the scene shifts to Boston and the launching of the frigate Constitution, where the same boys are midshipmen now lined up for inspection by Commodore Preble. At the docks in Salem, the merchant ship Esther, under Bos'n, recruits a country boy in search of adventure. The commodore vies for the hand of Esther, the captain's daughter, but is involved in a fight with a boatswain when the ship is taken by pirates; the crew is sold into slavery and the captain held for ransom. The Philadelphia is captured, and Stephen Decatur proposes to recapture or destroy it. In the melee, Bos'n, Gunner, and Commodore escape and are picked up by the Constitution, where Gunner is lashed for desertion. They all participate in the battle at Tripoli in which "Old Ironsides" is damaged; Esther is reunited with her father and the commodore, and they proceed to Singapore.
Director
James Cruze
Cast
Esther Ralston
Wallace Beery
George Bancroft
Charles Farrell
Johnny Walker
George Godfrey
Guy Oliver
Eddie Fetherston
Effie Ellsler
William Conklin
Fred Kohler
Charles Hill Mailes
Nick De Ruiz
Mitchell Lewis
Frank Jonasson
Frank Bonner
Duke Kahanamoku
Arthur Ludwig
Spec O'donnell
Boris Karloff
Tetsu Komai
Crew
Dorothy Arzner
Charles Boyle
Harry Carr
Harry Carr
Alfred Gilks
Rupert Hughes
Jesse L. Lasky
Roy Pomeroy
B. P. Schulberg
Harold Schwartz
Laurence Stallings
Walter Woods
Walter Woods
Adolph Zukor
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Notes
According to reviews, two of the film's sequences were shown in "Magnascope."
