A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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	Ramon Novarro (left), Joan Crawford and Ernest Torrence. Photograph: Silent Era image collection.

Cast: Ramon Novarro [Joel Shore], Joan Crawford [Priscilla Crowninshield], Ernest Torrence [Captain Mark Shore], Frank Currier [Jeremiah Shore], Daniel Wolheim [Noah Shore], Duke Martin [Matthew Shore], Edward Connelly [Joshua Crowninshield], James Mason (Jim Mason) [Finch, a ship’s mate], Anna May Wong [Bailarina, a Singapore woman], Richard Cramer [a mate at Nathan Ross], Pat Harmon [a sailor from the Santa Rosa], Chris-Pin Martin [a sailor from the Santa Rosa], Phil Bloom [a barfly], Lillian Lawrence [a townswoman]

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation [A William Nigh Production; A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture]. / Produced by William Nigh. Scenario by E. Richard Schayer + [Ted Shane], from the novel All the Brothers Were Valiant by Ben Ames Williams. Art direction by Cedric Gibbons. Costume design by David Cox. Cinematography by John F. Seitz. Film editor, Ben Lewis. Intertitles written by Joseph Farnum. / Premiered 30 April 1928. Released [?] 7 April or 6 May? 1928. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The novel was previously filmed as All the Brothers Were Valiant (1923). / Silent film.

Drama: Romance.

Survival status: Print exists [incomplete (surviving print has fragments lost to nitrate decomposition)].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 14 January 2025.

References: Quirk-Crawford pp. 15, 59 : ClasIm-221 p. 14 : Website-IMDb.

Home video: DVD.