Speed | |
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Directed by | George B. Seitz |
Written by | Charles Hutchison Bertram Millhauser |
Produced by | George B. Seitz |
Starring | Charles Hutchison Lucy Fox |
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Running time | 15 episodes |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
Speed is a 1922 American action film serial directed by George B. Seitz. [1] The story is a typically convoluted serial plot. Speed Stansbury is heir to a large fortune. A master criminal hires someone to frame Speed for murder and bank robbery. As Speed pursues the man who can prove his innocence to South America, he himself is followed by Lucy, the woman he loves.
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