The Silent Command (1923) (original) (raw)
Enemy agents, led by the sinister Benedict Hisston, plan to destroy the Panama Canal and wreck the U.S. Atlantic Fleet in the process. Richard Decatur, a high-ranking Navy official, is the only man who knows the Canal's weak spots. Hisston hires seductress Peg Williams to get the information from him by any means necessary. To his colleagues' shock, Decatur resigns his commission and elopes with the sexy young vamp. Little do they realize that the heroic navy man has learned of the saboteurs' plans and tricks the spies into an ambush with the very fleet they hoped to destroy.
Enemy agents, led by the sinister Benedict Hisston, plan to destroy the Panama Canal and wreck the U.S. Atlantic Fleet in the process. Richard Decatur, a high-ranking Navy official, is the only man who knows the Canal's weak spots. Hisston hires seductress Peg Williams to get the information from him by any means necessary. To his colleagues' shock, Decatur resigns his commission and elopes with the sexy young vamp. Little do they realize that the heroic navy man has learned of the saboteurs' plans and tricks the spies into an ambush with the very fleet they hoped to destroy. (less)
Director: J. Gordon Edwards
Writers: Anthony Paul Kelly, Rufus King
Starring: Edmund Lowe, Bela Lugosi, Carl Harbaugh, Martin Faust, Gordon McEdward, Byron Douglas
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