Speed (serial)

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Speed
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Directed by George B. Seitz
Written by Charles Hutchison
Bertram Millhauser
Produced byGeorge B. Seitz
StarringCharles Hutchison
Lucy Fox
Release date
  • October 22, 1922 (1922-10-22)
Running time
15 episodes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (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.

Contents

Cast

Chapter titles

1. The Getaway 2.Nerve 3.Pious Pedro 4. The Quagmire 5.Fighting Mad 6.Panic 7.Jaws of Danger 8.Caught 9.Hit or Miss 10.Buried Alive 11.Into the Crusher 12.Trimmed 13.Risky Business 14. The Peril Rider 15.Found Guilty

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References

  1. "Progressive Silent Film List: Speed". Silent Era. Retrieved February 24, 2008.

Notes

Rainey, Buck, Serials and Series, a World Filmography, 1912-1956, 1999, McFarland & Co., Inc. Lahue, Kalton C., Continued Next Week, A History of the Moving Picture Serial, 1964, University of Oklahoma Press