Sin Cargo
{{short description|1926 silent film}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}
{{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
- Shirley Mason as Eve Gibson
- Robert Frazer as Captain Matt Russell
- Earl Metcalfe as Harry Gibson
- Lawford Davidson as Jim Darrell
- Gertrude Astor as Mary Wickham
- Pat Harmon as Captain Barry
- Will Walling as Customs Official
- Billy Cinders as Cooper
- James T. Mack as Butler
Preservation status
References
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Bibliography
- Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
External links
{{commons category|Sin Cargo}}
- {{IMDb title|0017395}}
{{Louis J. Gasnier}}
Category:1920s English-language films
Category:American silent feature films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:Films directed by Louis J. Gasnier
Category:Tiffany Pictures films
Category:Silent American thriller films
Category:Silent American adventure films
Category:English-language thriller films
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