Name: The Story Without a Name
Released: 1924
Cast: Agnes Ayres, Antonio Moreno, [frederick] Tyrone Power, Louis Wolheim, Dagmar Godowsky

Cast & Crew

Film Details

Also Known As

Without warning

Release Date

Oct 27, 1924

Premiere Information

New York premiere: 5 Oct 1924

Production Company

Famous Players--Lasky

Distribution Company

Paramount Pictures

Country

United States

Screenplay Information

Based on the novel The Story Without a Name by Arthur Stringer (New York, 1924).

Synopsis

"This is certainly an action-melodrama, with the hero and heroine undergoing enough perils ... to supply a number of episodes of a serial. A few of these include the overpowering of the hero by the spy's gang, his being spirited away in an aeroplane, his fight with the pilot and leap into the sea, ... the rush of a warship to their rescue, the sinking of the spy's yacht by a bomb from an aeroplane launched from the deck of the warship, the rescue, and the arrival of another plane filled with U. S. marines." ( Moving Picture World, 18 Oct 1924, p1625.) Drakma, an international spy, seeks the possession of the triangulator (a device emitting electronic death rays), which radio expert Alan Holt invented for the United States Government. Mary Walsworth manages to smash the machine before Drakma can get it; therefore, the villain captures Alan and Mary, puts Mary on a rumrunner, and leaves Alan on an island to build another triangulator--under pain of Mary's death. Instead, Alan builds a radio and broadcasts an SOS, which is answered by Admiral Walsworth, Mary's father; gets to the rumrunner on a raft; and holds off the crew until the sailors arrive to the rescue.