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Director
  
Rowland V. Lee

Music director
  
David Drazin

Duration
  

Country
  
United States

6.8/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Adventure, Drama, Romance

Screenplay
  
Joseph F. Poland

The Sea Lion movie poster

Language
  
Silent (English intertitles)

Writer
  
Emilie Johnson
,
Joseph F. Poland

Release date
  
December 5, 1921

Cast
  
Hobart Bosworth
(Tom Walton),
Bessie Love
(Blossom Nelson),
Carol Holloway
(Dolly May),
Florence Carpenter
(Florence),
Charles Clary
(Green),
Jack Curtis
(Bentley)

Similar movies
  
Adventures End (1937)

The Sea Lion is a 1921 American silent adventure film directed by Rowland V. Lee, and starring Hobart Bosworth, Bessie Love, and Emory Johnson. The same staff on this film produced Rowland Lee's previous directed film Blind Hearts, released just before The Sea Lion.

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Plot

Captain John Nelson (Hobart Bosworth) and his crew hunt whales on the high seas. The captain is an angry man, having never recovered from his wife's leaving him for another man 20 years prior. When the ship comes to port, Tom (Emory Johnson), a young man, joins the crew as a lookout. He is distraught as well, having been jilted by his fiancee.

Back on the seas, the ship's inexperienced crew mistakes the water supply as a leak, and pumps it overboard. The captain rations the remaining water, and stores it in his quarters. The crew mutinies.

From the crow's nest, Tom spots a nearby island, and comes down to tell the captain while the crew is asleep. The captain makes the Tom the first mate, and they steer the ship to the nearby island. The island is inhabited by two survivors of an earlier shipwreck, one of whom is beautiful young Blossom (Bessie Love). The survivors are brought back to the ship, where the captain resists letting them board. The survivors promise to work on the ship, and he reluctantly agrees to let them travel.

Blossom learns that the captain's family name is Nelson, and says that her mother had the same name. The captain realizes that Blossom is the daughter of his wife, but assumes Blossom's father is another man. Blossom tells him that she never knew her father. During a storm at sea, the captain finds Blossom's Bible, which contains a note from her mother saying that she loved him all along. The captain realizes that Blossom is his daughter, and they are reconciled. Blossom and Tom fall in love.

Cast

  • Hobart Bosworth as John Nelson, the Sea Lion
  • Bessie Love as Blossom Nelson
  • Emory Johnson as Tom Walton
  • Richard Morris as Uncle Billy
  • Charles Clary as Nathan Walton
  • Carol Holloway as Dolly May
  • Florence Carpenter as Florence
  • Jack Curtis as Bentley
  • J. Gordon Russell as Simmons
  • References

    The Sea Lion Wikipedia
    The Sea Lion IMDb The Sea Lion themoviedb.org