A 50-minute silent thriller where love sails into blackmail and nobody's innocent.
On a voyage from Europe to the U.S., Desselway meets and falls in love with Diana Curran. Diana has a dark past, however -- she is married to Wrenshaw, a criminal known as "the Hawk." Diana got involved with Wrenshaw because she thought he was honest, and he keeps her under his thumb by making her believe she killed a man.
Direction
Fitzmaurice squeezes maximum dread from minimal runtime.
Acting
Snow's trapped desperation still reads across a century.
Director
George Fitzmaurice
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