Jack Tar (film)

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Jack Tar
Directed by Bert Haldane
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Distributed byI.C.C.
Release date
April 1915
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguagesSilent
English intertitles

Jack Tar is a 1915 British silent war film directed by Bert Haldane and starring Jack Tessier, Eve Balfour and Thomas H. MacDonald. [1] An Admiral's daughter goes undercover in Turkey to help a British agent thwart a German plot during the First World War.

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  1. Goble p.273

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