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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 | George Godfrey | William Conklin | Effie Ellsler | Guy Oliver | Fred Kohler | Arthur Ludwig | Boris Karloff | Dean Harrell | Spec O'Donnell | Nick De Ruiz | Frank Jonasson | Duke Kahanamoku | Mitchell Lewis | Tetsu Komai | Richard Alexander | Richard Arlen | Frank Bonner | Gary Cooper | Frank Darien | Jack Herrick | Robert Livingston | William Bakewell | Bess Flowers | Herbert Janssen | Göta Ljungberg