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Turtles in Movies   Male and Female (1919)   Spoiler Alert ! Some of these pictures and descriptions may give away plot details that you might not want to know before watching the film.   In a comic moment from this great Cecil B. DeMille silent movie, Theodore Roberts plays a pompous aristocrat, Lord Loam, whose yacht sinks, stranding everyone on a deserted island somewhere in the south seas. After he lands on shore he wants to lie down to rest. He sees something he can rest his head on, so he lays down on it, then he discovers that it has a flipper and is in fact a sea turtle. He gets up and his glaring expression seems to show that he is disgusted with the turtle. That's the sort of self-centered reaction we expect from him. (You have to do a lot of interpreting of expressions in these old silent films because they use so few words.) I'm not sure what kind of sea turtle this is.