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Sin Cargo

1926 silent film

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Sin Cargo is a 1926 American silent thriller film directed by Louis J. Gasnier and starring Shirley Mason, Robert Frazer and Earl Metcalfe. The film's sets were designed by the art director Edwin B. Willis.

01Plot

The film is about a man in financial ruin who becomes involved in pearl smuggling, but conceals the fact from his sister.

02Cast

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

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Sin Cargo ad from Motion Picture News, January to March 1927 (page 15 crop).jpg by Motion Picture News, Public domain

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