Storyline

Wealthy young man Ramon Laredo is abducted and put into service aboard a ship commanded by a none-too-scrupulous smuggler. When the ship encounters the foundering "Lady Letty," some of the Letty's crew is brought aboard, including Letty 'Moran' Sternerson, feisty daughter of the Letty's captain. Moran and Ramon have little use for each other, but when trouble erupts and the smuggler Captain Kitchell turns his evil eye on Moran, it is Ramon who comes to her rescue.—Jim Beaver

Plot Keywords

ship, fire, fight, father daughter relationship, eavesdropping, double cross, dancing, chinese, bar, banquet, attempted rape, abandoned ship, smuggling, treasure, gas, gunfire, impersonation, san francisco california, san diego california, yacht

Short Review

Moran of the Lady Letty (1922)Another Rudolph Valentino silent film. This movie is another effort to make Valentino a more macho character rather than his lithe effete self. Maybe not as good as The Sheik (1921) or Blood and Sand (1922), but Moran of the Lady Letty is almost a swash buckler.Ramon Loredo (Valentino) is a bored, rich, socialite who is tired of the throngs of love-sick debutants and cotillions. He longs for something else. Ramon was late getting on board a yacht on the San Francisco bay is shanghaied and brought to a square-rigger smuggling ship run with an iron fist by Captain Kitchell (Walter Long).Our tomboy heroine, Moran Sternerson (Dorothy Dalton) is the fellow crew member with her Captain Father on board their ship the Lady Letty. On their way sailing south their ship's cargo of coal catches fire.Ramon rescues Moran and the Captain Kitchell tries to salvage Moran's ship as it burns up. Captain Kitchell has got some plans for Moran. Maybe selling her into white slavery to his Mexican partner, Pancho (Cecil Holland).

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