Speed (1925 film)

Speed
Speed
	Still from a magazine
Directed by	Edward LeSaint
Written by	Lois Zellner
Based on	Speed; 1924 story in Saturday Evening Post ; by Grace Sartwell Mason
Produced by	Ben Verschleiser
Starring	Betty Blythe ; Pauline Garon ; Arthur Rankin
Cinematography	King D. Gray ; Orin Jackson
Production; company	Banner Productions
Distributed by	Henry Ginsberg Distributing Company ; UFA (Germany)
Release date	April 26, 1925;
Running time	60 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Last updated December 28, 2025

Speed is a 1925 American silent comedy drama film directed by Edward LeSaint and starring Betty Blythe, Pauline Garon, and Arthur Rankin.^[1]^[2]

Plot

As described in a film magazine review,^[3] because they are called "old fashioned" by their children, Mr. and Mrs. Whipple buy a car, plan a trip out West, and decide to jazz things up some themselves. Their daughter Wiletta accompanies them on the trip, leaving her sheik behind. Out West she meets Nat, who helps in preventing the two parents from being swindled in a deal for a gold mine. There follows a kidnapping, a holdup, and a chase down a mountainside to save Wiletta. At the end, all of them determine to give up modern jazz methods.

Cast

Betty Blythe as Mary Whipple
Pauline Garon as Wiletta Whipple
William V. Mong as Sam Whipple
Arthur Rankin as Dick Whipple
Alfred Allen as Nat Armstrong
Robert Ellis as Nat Armstrong Jr.
Eddie Phillips as Jack Cartwright
Fred Becker as Señor Querino
Stella De Lanti as Señora Querino

Preservation

A print of Speed is held in the Gosfilmofond film archive in Moscow.^[2]

References

↑ Munden p. 753
1 2 Progressive Silent Film List: Speed at silentera.com
↑ "New Pictures: Speed", Exhibitors Herald, 21 (13): 49, June 20, 1925, retrieved April 9, 2022 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

Bibliography

Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.

External links

Speed at IMDb
Speed at the TCM Movie Database
Speed at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films

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[1] Munden p. 753

[SilentEra-2] 1 2 Progressive Silent Film List: Speed at silentera.com

[3] "New Pictures: Speed", Exhibitors Herald, 21 (13): 49, June 20, 1925, retrieved April 9, 2022 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

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