Parisian Love / Down to the Sea in Ships - Region 1 DVD

Bow landed her first sizable role in the 1922 adventure Down to the Sea in Ships, playing a scrappy tomboy granddaughter of a Quaker whaling magnate. The film has little to do with her and everything to do with the thrilling record of authentically re-created 19th-century whaling. The story is a tired romantic melodrama, but the exciting footage on the high seas is utterly captivating, making this a one-of-a-kind document of a long-gone culture. --Sean Axmaker