The Royal American is a 1927 American silent action adventure film directed by Harry Joe Brown and starring Reed Howes, Nita Martan and Billy Franey.^[1] Produced by Brown's own production company, it was distributed by the independent Rayart Pictures, the forerunner of Monogram Pictures.

A young coast guard becomes involved with an altercation with the crew of a ship and finds himself shanghaied aboard. The ship turns out to be gunrunning armaments to South American revolutionaries.

• Reed Howes as Jack Beaton
• Nita Martan as Gail Morton
• Billy Franey as Mike
• David Kirby as Pat
• J.P. McGowan as Capt. Burke
• Hal Salter as First Mate Dorgan
• Rosa Gore as Mother Meg

• Connelly, Robert B. The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2. December Press, 1998.
• Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.

• The Royal American at IMDb