The Millionaire Pirate (1919)
In the early eighteenth century, pirate captain Jean Lafitte fights a rival pirate and wins a treasure and a beautiful female captive. Although the girl offers herself to Lafitte to save her English lover, Lafitte makes him walk the plank. The girl then places a curse on Lafitte and his descendants, preventing them from ever knowing the true love of woman. Two hundred years later, in the West Antilles, painter Paul Winthrop poses Joe, a pearl diver, as a pirate. Upon seeing the completed painting, each envisions the earlier situation. Later, Joe finds the buried treasure and sails to New York, where he learns that the portrait has also attracted wealthy Lily Demorest and her suitor, Robert Spurr, a "financial pirate."
Director: Rupert Julian
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Monroe Salisbury as Jean Lafitte |
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Ruth Clifford as The Girl |
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Lillian Langdon as Her Mother |
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Harry Holden as Her Father |
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Jack Mower as Her Sweetheart |
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Clyde Fillmore as Robert Spurr |
| Writing | Herbert Hall Winslow | Story |
| Writing | Waldemar Young | Writer |
| Directing | Rupert Julian | Director |
| Writing | Emil Nyitray | Story |
| Art | Wilson Silsby | Art Direction |
| Directing | Rex Hodge | Assistant Director |
