The Yankee Consul (film)

The Yankee Consul is a 1924 American blackandwhite silent comedy film directed by James W. Horne and written by Raymond Cannon. With a screen adaptation by Lewis Milestone and Raymond Griffith, the film is based upon the 1904 Broadway play The Yankee Consul a Musical Comedy by Alfred G. Robyn and Henry Martyn Blossom.

Through a series of confusions, Dudley Ainsworth Douglas MacLean is required to travel on a passenger ship to Brazil, posing as tha American consul to a South American country. O the ship, he meets Margarita Carrosa Patsy Ruth Miller and becomes embroiled in a conspiracy involving Margarita and thieves planning to steal gold from the American consulate in Rio de Janeiro. Upon arrival in Brazil, Margarita is taken hostage by the thieves, and Ainsworth sends word to the U. S. Navy before rushing to an estate where Margarita is being held captive. Ainsworth captures the thieves and rescues the girl. The navy Admiral Eric Mayne arrives with the real Yankee consul to reveal that the entire set of events was a prank played on Ainsworth by his friends.

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