Sin Cargo

{{short description|1926 silent film}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = Sin Cargo

| image = Sin Cargo ad from Motion Picture News, January to March 1927 (page 15 crop).jpg

| caption =

| director = Louis J. Gasnier

| producer =

| writer = Leete Renick Brown (story)
Jack Natteford

| narrator =

| starring = Shirley Mason{{cite web |last1=Gasnier |first1=Louis J. |last2=Mason |first2=Shirley |title=Sin Cargo |url=http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.9208/default.html |date=1926}}
Robert Frazer
Earl Metcalfe

| music =

| cinematography = Milton Moore
Mack Stengler

| editing = Harold Young

| studio = Tiffany Pictures

| distributor = Tiffany Pictures

| released = {{Film date|1926|11|15}}

| runtime = 70 minutes

| country = United States

| language = Silent
English intertitles

| budget =

| gross =

}}

Sin Cargo is a 1926 American silent thriller film directed by Louis J. Gasnier and starring Shirley Mason, Robert Frazer and Earl Metcalfe.Goble p.58{{cite book |last1=Goble |first1=Alan |title=The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film |date=8 September 2011 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter |isbn=978-3-11-095194-3 |page=58 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yyqc0Qa6b60C&q=Sin+Cargo&pg=PA954 |language=en}} The film's sets were designed by the art director Edwin B. Willis.[https://catalog.afi.com/Film/12135-SIN-CARGO?sid=9bd5512a-9920-41c*-8026-9040318f71df&sr=11.011932&cp=1&pos=0 The AFI Catalog of Feature Films:Sin Cargo]

Plot

The film is about a man in financial ruin who becomes involved in pearl smuggling, but conceals the fact from his sister.{{cite news |last1=Erickson |first1=Hal |title=Sin Cargo synopsis |url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/sin-cargo-v110260 |work=Allmovie.com |date=1926 |language=en}}

Cast

Preservation status

  • The film is now lost.[https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.9208/ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Sin Cargo][https://www.silentsaregolden.com/arnetiffany.html Arne Andersen's Lost Film Files: Sin Cargo]

References

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Bibliography

  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.