The Eleventh Hour (1923 film)

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The Eleventh Hour
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Directed by Bernard Durning
Screenplay byLouis Sherwin
Based onThe Eleventh Hour
by Lincoln J. Carter
Starring Shirley Mason
Buck Jones
Richard Tucker
Alan Hale Sr.
Walter McGrail
June Elvidge
CinematographyDon Short
Production
company
Distributed byFox Film Corporation
Release date
  • July 20, 1923 (1923-07-20)
Running time
70 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguagesSilent
English intertitles

The Eleventh Hour is a lost 1923 American melodrama action film directed by Bernard Durning and written by Louis Sherwin. The film stars Shirley Mason, Buck Jones, Richard Tucker, Alan Hale Sr., Walter McGrail and June Elvidge. The film was released on July 20, 1923, by Fox Film Corporation. [1] [2] [3]

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Plot

Wanting to take over the world, the mad and evil Prince Stefan de Bernie plots to acquire a new explosive developed at a plant owned by Barbara Hackett. Prince Stefan uses blackmail to get Barbara's uncle and the dishonest business executive Herbert Glenville — a man who would like to marry Barbara — to cooperate with him. Meanwhile, Brick McDonald, an employee of Prince Stefan's, wins Barbara's confidence. After a number of adventures involving wild chases in motorboats, airplanes, and submarines, fights with lions, and rescuing Barbara from being lowered into a pit of molten steel, McDonald foils Prince Stefan's plans. McDonald then reveals that he is actually the chief of the United States Secret Service. [1] [4] [5]

Cast

Production

The film was based on the unpublished and uncopyrighted play The Eleventh Hour by Lincoln J. Carter. [1] [6]

Between February 26 and March 2, 1923, Twentieth Century Fox used the United States Navy submarine USS R-6 in filming The Eleventh Hour. [7]

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  7. Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships R-6 Accessed 19 January 2023