The Millionaire Pirate

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."

Date of release
1919-02-10
TMDB
7.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
50m
Genres
Drama, Fantasy
Director
Rupert Julian

Casting

Interesting facts

The Millionaire Pirate is a 1919 American silent fantasy adventure film directed by Rupert Julian and starring Monroe Salisbury, Ruth Clifford and Lillian Langdon.

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