Vultures of the Sea (1928)
When his father is falsely convicted and sentenced to die for a murder committed aboard ship, the man's son signs on as a crewman to discover the real killer and clear his father.
Top billed cast
Johnnie WalkerFrank Armstrong
Shirley MasonRuth Enright
Tom SantschiGrim Hawley - Sea Captain
Frank HagneyBull Marlow
Boris KarloffGrouchy
Horace B. Carpenter(unconfirmed)
George Magrill- Joseph BennettDeaf mute
- Arthur DeweyDroop Johnson
- Joseph P. Mack
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