The Eagle is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Clarence Brown and starring Rudolph Valentino, Vilma Bánky, and Louise Dresser.[1] Based on the posthumously published 1841 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.
Black Eagle does not exist in the novel and was inspired by the performance of Douglas Fairbanks as Zorro in The Mark of Zorro.[3]