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The Sword of Valor
(1924) United States of America
B&W : Five reels / 4800 feet
Directed by Duke Worne
Cast: Rex Baker (Reg ‘Snowy’ Baker), Dorothy Revier [Ynez], Percy Challenger, Eloise Hess, Stella De Lanti, Otto Lederer [Don Guzman de Ruis y Montejo, Ynez’s father], Fred Kavens, Armando Pasquali, Edward Cecil [Ismid Matrouli]
Phil Goldstone Productions production. / Scenario by Jefferson Moffitt, from a screen story by Julio Sabello. Cinematography by Roland Price. / Premiered 6 May 1924 in New York, New York. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama.
Synopsis: [Variety, 14 May 1924, page 28] The story concerns the fair Ynez, the daughter of a Spanish Don living quietly in the ancient hacienda. Her father, Don Guzman de Ruis y Montejo (Otto Lederer), determines upon a rich marriage for the girl. A chance meeting with an American, Captain Crooks, develops into love at first sight. Papa, not knowing, takes his daughter to the Riviera, where Ismid Matrouli (Edwin [ sic ] Cecil), a Levantine of mongrel origin, but wealthy, falls in love and asks dad for her hand. The captain appears upon the scene in time to rescue Ynez from a watery death. . . . Matrouli sicks a professional swordsman on the cap, but the latter socks him in the jaw instead of arranging a duel. . . . The inevitable duel follows. . . . A gypsy lover of Ynez takes a pot shot at the cap during the duel, but hits his opponent. The latter then kidnaps Ynez and carries her away to a mountain stronghold, where the captain corners him . . . .
Survival status: Print exists.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 19 September 2008.
References: Limbacher-Feature p. 240 : ClasIm-223 p. 58; Variety-19240514 p. 28 : Website-AFI.
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