
Lola, girl captain of a smuggling schooner and the ruler of wild men gives her love to a traitor, and takes it back by taking from him the woman who first won his love..


Salt, gun-cotton, and oleander—the perfume that trails Allen Holubar’s Hurricane’s Gal is unlike anything distilled in early twenties cinema. Most swashbucklers of the period clung to Douglas Fairbanks’s gymnastic optimism; they pirouetted through tropes with a wink, confident that virtue would somersault to victory...

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" Salt, gun-cotton, and oleander—the perfume that trails Allen Holubar’s Hurricane’s Gal is unlike anything distilled in early twenties cinema. Most swashbucklers of the period clung to Douglas Fairbanks’s gymnastic optimism; they pirouetted through tropes with a wink, confident that virtue would somersault to victory. Holubar, fresh from the surgical melodrama of Harakiri and the race-against-time suspense of In the Nick of Time, instead steers his lens into the hurricane’s eye of moral ambigu..."
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