| The Devil's Cargo | |
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| Directed by | Victor Fleming |
| Written by | Charles E. Whittaker A.P. Younger |
| Produced by | Adolph Zukor Jesse Lasky |
| Starring | Wallace Beery Pauline Starke |
| Cinematography | Charles Schoenbaum (as C. Edgar Schoenbaum) |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 80 min.; 8reels (7,890 feet) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (Englishintertitles) |
The Devil's Cargo is a 1925 Americansilentdrama film produced byFamous Players–Lasky and distributed byParamount Pictures. It was directed byVictor Fleming and starredWallace Beery andPauline Starke. It is based on an original story for the screen.[1][2]
As described in a review in a film magazine,[3] John Joyce (Collier), newly arrived in Sacramento during theCalifornia Gold Rush to edit a newspaper, arrays himself with the Vigilantes. He is one of the most eager in his demand that the mining camp characters expelled to make the capital what he thinks it should be. Then he meets Faro Sampson (Starke) and falls in love, thinking her to be a daughter of a minister. When he discovers that she is the daughter of a gambler and the chief attraction of his den, he spurns her. However, when she comes calling, he meekly returns at her call, and is placed in a compromising situation. He is evicted along with all the people he had denounced, and his sister Martha (Adams) is carried along on the same boat. Vigilantes refuse the crowd to disembark, but they force their way ashore until the bursting of the boiler on the boat sends it adrift with a few men and women still onboard. Ben (Beery), a fireman, assumes command by virtue that he has the captain's cap and by his strength. When he seeks to make Martha his victim, Joyce is galvanized to action to save his sister. A fight ensues and Ben is overpowered by a blow to his head from a skylight. Demoted to the scullion on the rescue ship, Ben is relegated to paring potatoes while Joyce and Faro find happiness.
TheLibrary of Congress catalog and film archives do not show any listings for the film.[4][5] However, the silentera.com site and an online dvd retailer list the film as available for sale.[6][7]
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