
The captain of a sailing ship has an affair with the wife of one of his passengers, and gets mixed up in a mutiny at sea and a revolution..

J.G. Hawks, Harvey F. Thew
United States

The Nautical Nihilism of the Silent Era In the pantheon of 1920s cinema, few artifacts capture the sheer visceral magnitude of maritime existentialism quite like Under Crimson Skies. Directed with a surprising penchant for grit and atmospheric dread, the film serves as a stark departure from the more sanitized adven...

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Rex Ingram

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" The Nautical Nihilism of the Silent Era In the pantheon of 1920s cinema, few artifacts capture the sheer visceral magnitude of maritime existentialism quite like Under Crimson Skies. Directed with a surprising penchant for grit and atmospheric dread, the film serves as a stark departure from the more sanitized adventures of the era. We are introduced to Captain Anthony Yeatman, played with a heavy-set gravitas by Elmo Lincoln. Lincoln, largely immortalized as the screen's first Tarzan, sheds ..."


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