Twelve Miles Out
Jerry always wins in his rivalry with Red over women, gunrunning, and diamond smuggling. While running booze into the U.S. during Prohibition, Jerry seizes Jane's seaside home. When she tries to turn him in, he kidnaps her and her fiance John. Jane, now in love with Jerry, must watch as Jerry and Red shoot it out on board Jerry's boat.
From the archive
I've been researching newly public domain films from 1929 and earlier, along with other pictures of the era that I find interesting, so I'm uploading the best possible copies that I can find. In Twelve Miles out, two pirate bootleggers kidnap a young couple who threatened to turn them in to the police. Though Jane, the young woman who is already engaged, starts to become entranced in the life of a smuggler. This John Gilbert and Joan Crawford silent seems to have mostly been forgotten by time, though modern viewers find it exciting, but lacking surprises. This version is unfortunately incomplete, cutting about 20 minutes of character development. What remains is serviceable to the plot, however, and unless a more full print is released by MGM, this is the highest quality version that is publicly available.
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Twelve Miles Out (1927) is hosted by the Internet Archive as a public-domain or openly licensed work, which means its copyright has expired, lapsed, or was released by the rights holder. The uploader declared an explicit licence, linked in the source panel. Nitrate streams the file directly from the Archive and hosts no video itself.
- Director
- Jack Conway
- Starring
- John Gilbert, Ernest Torrence, Joan Crawford, Eileen Percy, Paulette Duval, Dorothy Sebastian, Gwen Lee, Edward Earle
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