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Old Ironsides (1926)

Directed by James Cruze

Overview

An embellished account of the 1803 expedition by famed frigate U.S.S. Constitution—a.k.a. “Old Ironsides”—against the Barbary pirates then terrorizing American shipping, focusing on the crew and passengers of a fictional merchant ship, The Esther, who fall afoul of the same pirates and thus become involved with the Constitution’s mission.

Rated NR | Length 114 minutes

Actors

Charles Farrell | Esther Ralston | Wallace Beery | George Bancroft | Charles Hill Mailes | Johnnie Walker | Eddie Fetherston | Guy Oliver | George Godfrey | William Conklin | Effie Ellsler | Arthur Ludwig | Boris Karloff | Frank Bonner | Richard Arlen | Richard Alexander | William Bakewell | Frank Darien | Nick De Ruiz | Bess Flowers | Dean Harrell | Jack Herrick | Herbert Janssen | Frank Jonasson | Duke Kahanamoku | Fred Kohler | Tetsu Komai | Mitchell Lewis | Robert Livingston | Göta Ljungberg | Spec O'Donnell | Gary Cooper