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Conflict ensues when a young man's childhood sweetheart becomes betrothed to his older brother.Conflict ensues when a young man's childhood sweetheart becomes betrothed to his older brother.Conflict ensues when a young man's childhood sweetheart becomes betrothed to his older brother.
Phil Bloom
- Barfly
- (uncredited)
Richard Cramer
- Mate at Nathan Ross
- (uncredited)
Pat Harmon
- Sailor from the Santa Rosa
- (uncredited)
Lillian Lawrence
- Townswoman
- (uncredited)
Chris-Pin Martin
- Sailor from the Santa Rosa
- (uncredited)
Anna May Wong
- Singapore Woman
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaJoan Crawford would later remark that she disliked this film and thought that she and Ramon Novarro were miscast.
- Quotes
Joel Shore: Stand back! Unhand that woman... or my trusty pistol will bark your doom!
- Alternate versionsTurner Classic Movies (TCM) broadcast a version with an uncredited piano music score, and running time of 85 minutes.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Anna May Wong, Frosted Yellow Willows: Her Life, Times and Legend (2007)
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The Captain Of Her Heart
This is a good silent film, with high MGM production values, good acting, story and direction to me the 84 minutes running time flew by.
Ramon Navarro and Joan Crawford are young lovers Joel and Priscilla who are unexpectedly and unintentionally thwarted by his chunky big brother Cap'n Mark played by Ernest Torrence suddenly being publicly announced as being betrothed to her. From the playful opening scenes at the shipwreck, jolly dinner party and rites of passage (for Joel) bar-room brawl it gets serious, coinciding with a pivotal voyage to Singapore on the Nathan Ross. The other two brothers are summarily dismissed from the plot by Noah getting washed overboard in a storm and Matthew lost with the Sea Robin. The only bit I didn't like was Mark crazy with drink in Singapore presumably not still moping about Priscilla because Joel had smoothed it over on board the ship, but the implication it was caused by guilt over his six month relationship with Anna May Wong who was meant to be seen as a lesser mortal by the highly moral white audience. Favourite bits: the juvenile scenes by Joel at the dinner party; the storm scenes; the very realistic climactic fight scene; the main players' conflicting emotions as the plot unravels. The print saved is generally good but can be a bit dodgy - only just pre-combustion in places, but bearable if you get into the story.
Well worth watching for all sorts of reasons if nothing else for Novarro and Crawford and MGM being young and full of life and promise.
Ramon Navarro and Joan Crawford are young lovers Joel and Priscilla who are unexpectedly and unintentionally thwarted by his chunky big brother Cap'n Mark played by Ernest Torrence suddenly being publicly announced as being betrothed to her. From the playful opening scenes at the shipwreck, jolly dinner party and rites of passage (for Joel) bar-room brawl it gets serious, coinciding with a pivotal voyage to Singapore on the Nathan Ross. The other two brothers are summarily dismissed from the plot by Noah getting washed overboard in a storm and Matthew lost with the Sea Robin. The only bit I didn't like was Mark crazy with drink in Singapore presumably not still moping about Priscilla because Joel had smoothed it over on board the ship, but the implication it was caused by guilt over his six month relationship with Anna May Wong who was meant to be seen as a lesser mortal by the highly moral white audience. Favourite bits: the juvenile scenes by Joel at the dinner party; the storm scenes; the very realistic climactic fight scene; the main players' conflicting emotions as the plot unravels. The print saved is generally good but can be a bit dodgy - only just pre-combustion in places, but bearable if you get into the story.
Well worth watching for all sorts of reasons if nothing else for Novarro and Crawford and MGM being young and full of life and promise.
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- Spondonman
- Jan 20, 2008
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- All the Brothers Were Valiant
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- $290,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 25 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
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