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The Yankee Clipper (film)

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Director
  
Rupert Julian

Initial DVD release
  
October 7, 2008

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IMDb

Genre
  
Drama

Duration
  

Country
  
United States

The Yankee Clipper (1927 film) movie poster
Language
  
Silent film English intertitles

Writer
  
Garrett Fort
,
John W. Krafft
,
Garnett Weston

Release date
  
May 7, 1927 (1927-05-07)

Screenplay
  
Garrett Fort, Garnett Weston, John W. Krafft

Cast
  
William Boyd
(Captain Hal Winslow),
Elinor Fair
(Lady Jocelyn Huntington),
Frank Coghlan Jr.
(Mickey),
John Miljan
(Paul de Vigny),
Walter Long
(Portuguese Joe),
Louis Payne
(Lord Huntington)

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The Yankee Clipper is a 1927 American adventure film produced by Cecil B. DeMille and directed by Rupert Julian. It is set against the maritime rivalry between the United States and Great Britain in the mid-19th century.

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Plot

Captain Winslow takes a revolutionary new clipper ship, built by his father, on its first voyage, and Mickey Murphy is found stowing away in a burlap sack. While in China, Winslow attends a dinner hosted by a wealthy Chinese merchant and rescues English maiden Lady Jocelyn Huntington from rioting beggars. Winslow agrees to a race from China to Boston against an English clipper ship. He wins the race and Lady Jocelyn.

Cast

  • William Boyd ..... Captain Hal Winslow
  • Elinor Fair ..... Lady Jocelyn Huntington
  • Frank Coghlan, Jr. ..... Mickey Murphy
  • John Miljan ..... Paul de Vigny
  • Walter Long ..... Portuguese Joe
  • Louis Payne ..... Lord Huntington
  • Burr McIntosh ..... Thomas Winslow
  • Clarence Burton ..... Captain McIntosh
  • References

    The Yankee Clipper (film) Wikipedia