title: The Road to Romance
text: # The Road to Romance
  
  The Road to Romance is a 1927 American silent action film directed by John S. Robertson, based upon the 1903 Joseph Conrad-Ford Madox Ford novel Romance. A copy of the film survives at the New Zealand Film Archive.
  
  ## Plot
  
  Serafina (Marceline Day) is captured by Don Balthasar (Roy D'Arcy)'s pirates on a Caribbean island, when José Armando (Ramon Novarro) arrives from Spain to the rescue.
  
  ## Cast
  
  * Ramon Novarro as José Armando
  * Marceline Day as Serafina
  * Marc McDermott as Pópolo
  * Roy D'Arcy as Don Balthasar
  * Cesare Gravina as Castro
  * Jules Cowles as Smoky Beard
  * John George
  * Bobbie Mack as Drunkard (credited as Bobby Mack)
  * Otto Matieson as Don Carlos (credited as Otto Matiesen)
  