The Eagle

There is action without pause - romance that stirs the senses - mystery that baffles - over all a love theme that sweeps the heart

Directed by Clarence Brown

Produced by Art Finance Corporation, United Artists

A swashbuckling silent-era romance where a masked outlaw seeking vengeance discovers love instead, balancing adventure, disguise, and the conflict between duty and desire.

Vladimir Dubrouvsky, a lieutenant in the Russian army, catches the eye of Czarina Catherine II. He spurns her advances and flees, and she puts out a warrant for his arrest, dead or alive. Vladimir learns that his father's lands have been taken by the evil Kyrilla Troekouroff, and his father dies. He dons a black mask, and becomes the outlaw The Black Eagle. He enters the Troekouroff household disguised as a French instructor for Kyrilla's daughter Mascha. He is after vengeance, but instead falls in love with Mascha.