# The Eagle

The Eagle is a 1925 American silent film directed by Clarence Brown and starring Rudolph Valentino, Vilma Bánky, and Louise Dresser. A loose adaptation on the novel Dubrovsky by Alexander Pushkin,\[2\] the film is about a lieutenant in the Russian army who catches the eye of Czarina Catherine II. After he rejects her advances and flees, she puts out a warrant for his arrest, dead or alive. When he learns that his father has been persecuted and killed, he dons a black mask and becomes an outlaw. Prints currently exist in the film holdings of EmGee Film Library and in private film collections. This copy was struck in 1960.

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1925
- Genres: Education, Silent, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/theeagle_201611)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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