Mare Nostrum (1926 film)

Mare Nostrum
Directed byRex Ingram
Written byWillis Goldbeck
Based onMare Nostrum
by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Produced byRex Ingram
StarringAntonio Moreno
Alice Terry
CinematographyJohn F. Seitz
Edited byGrant Whytock
Music byWilliam Axt
Distributed byMGM
Release date
  • February 15, 1926 (1926-02-15)
Running time
102 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)
Mare Nostrum ad in Motion Picture News, 1926

Mare Nostrum is a 1926 American silent war drama film directed by Rex Ingram. It was the first production made by Ingram while in voluntary exile[1] and stars Ingram's wife, Alice Terry. The film is set during World War I, and follows a Spanish merchant sailor who becomes involved with a German spy. It is based on the novel of the same name by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez. Long thought lost, the film has recently been re-discovered and restored.

  1. ^ Miller, 2004 TCM: “Ingram was disgusted with Hollywood....[and] fled [to Europe] in 1924...in Nice, France... he bought his own studio in Nice, the Victorine...” to film Mare Nostrum.
    Brownlow, 2018: Ingram “so loathed Louis B. Mayer that he refused to allow his name on his pictures... still under contract [to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios], Ingram emigrated in 1924 to the south of France...using M-G-M money” to make films.