THE EAGLE (1925)--a colorized American silent film

Based on the posthumously published 1841 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. The masked theme was not in the original novel, but was inspired by Zorro.