The Sea Tiger (1927)

"The Sea Tiger" is a 1927 Drama movie directed by Mary Heaton Vorse and starring by Milton Sills, Mary Astor. Julian Ramos is a fisherman in the Canary Islands. As the guardian of his hotheaded younger brother Charles, Julian regards it as his duty to protect the boy from women -- and vice versa. When Charles begins pitching woo at aristocratic Amy, Julian runs interference by pretending to be in love with the girl himself. As time passes, of course, he stops pretending.