The Eagle is a 1925 American
silent film directed by
Clarence Brown and starring
Rudolph Valentino,
Vilma Bánky, and
Louise Dresser. Based on the novel
Dubrovsky by
Alexander Pushkin, 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. Black Eagle does not exist in the novel and was inspired by the performance of
Douglas Fairbanks as
Zorro in
The Mark of Zorro.