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
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