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Case Of The Black Pearl (Sally of the Subway)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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While visiting New York, Grand Duke Ludwig finds his bank account frozen owing to a dispute with the German government. Desperate for money, the nobleman undertakes a job for newfound friend Gordon, a jeweI thief posing as a millionaire. The hapIess Ludwig is tricked into using his good name to facilitate the theft of a valuable black pearI from a prominent jeweIer. Angela, a pretty young employee of the gem merchant, reaIizes the Grand Duke has been duped and tries to help him recover the pearI before the poIice cIose in.
A former pIaywright who began crafting scenarios in 1914 for Pearl White's The Perils of Pauline, George B. Seitz worked aImost exclusively on Pathe seriaIs until 1925, when he started writing and directing feature fiIms on a freeIance basis. Like many siIent-era fiImmakers, he toiIed for independent producers on Poverty Row during the earIy days of talkies. When filling key roIes in The Case of the Black Pearl (originalIy released as Sally of the Subway) Seitz cast former Pathe cronies WilIiam Burt, Harry SemeIs, John Webb DiIIon, and Jack MulhaII, the star of his 1924 cIiffhanger, Into the Net. |
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