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M oft o n Picture News
Coming !
Ihe Novelty Melodrama of thenar
Galleons, derelicts, once-proud clippers, stately liners, caught in the grip of the weird Sargasso Sea through centuries and wedged by s«a-weed into an island of lost ships. A colony of men and only two women inhabit it. a rabble ruled by a giant with the right of might. Escape is impossible. Each new wreck adds castaways, desperate men — sometimes a woman, and she, by community law, must marry within one day, choosing her husband from the mob. Th>-> man she takes must defend her against all-comers.
To this island drift a millionaire's daughter, a New York detective and his
prisoner, an ex-naval officer charged with murder — sole survivors of a wreck. And although the girl would give a million for reprieve, she must choose her mate from the men who offer. Two want her — the brute who rules and the man accused of murder.
Director Maurice Tourneur tackled a big job in filming this story of Captain Crittenden Marriott's. Not only was there drama of the strongest kind, but also the unprecedented locale of the Sargasso Sea with its waste world of stagnant weed, its submarine monsters, the hundreds of ships it never lets go. A sailor's myth some call
the Sargasso Sea ; yet the atlas shows it at the Gulf of Mexico's very door. Thus Tourneur has depicted both island and people, in scenes that come as some new, almost incredible wonder.
With. Anna Q. Xilsson, Milton Sills, Frank Campeau and Walter Long in the cast, produced at M. C. Levee's vast United ' Studios, at Hollywood, " The Isle of Lost Ships " will be discovered as that rarest of jewels — a photoplay the like of which has never been seen.
Yo ho, me hearties ! Bend a sail !
.C. LeVee presents
A Maurice Tourneur Production "She ISLE OF LOST SHIPS"
% (rittenden Marriott "Personally directed byZMaurice Tourneur
A Y\x.bt national Picture