Overview
An embellished account of the 1803 expedition by famed frigate U.S.S. Constitution--a.k.a. "Old Ironsides"--against the Barbary pirates then terrorizing American shipping, focusing on the crew and passengers of a fictional merchant ship, The Esther, who fall afoul of the same pirates and thus become involved with the Constitution's mission.
Cast
- Charles Farrell as Boy
- Esther Ralston as Girl
- Wallace Beery as Bos'n
- George Bancroft as Gunner
- Charles Hill Mailes as Commodore Preble
- Johnnie Walker as Stephen Decatur
- Eddie Fetherston as Richard Somers
- George Godfrey as Cook
- William Conklin as Esther's Father (uncredited)
- Effie Ellsler as Esther's Mother (uncredited)