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Directed by | Eugene De Rue |
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Cinematography | Kenneth Gordon MacLean |
Production company | Waldorf Pictures |
Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time | 57 minutes |
Country | United States |
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The Thrill Hunter is a 1926 American silent comedy adventure film directed by Eugene De Rue and starring William Haines, Kathryn McGuire, and Alma Bennett. [1] An American is mistaken for the ruler of a small European principality, and forced to marry. He manages to escape, and publishes an account of his adventures.
As described in a film magazine review:
Peter Smith, writer for publisher T. B. Maynard, in love with latter's daughter Alice, is hectored by his employer because his stories lack thrills. A Maynard book, just published, Downfall of Grecovia, angers the representatives of that country. Peter meets with a slight accident which impels him to drink from a strange bottle, and forthwith he plunges head-first into a maze of wild, exciting adventures, is kidnapped by Grecovians, meets the lovely Princess Zola, escapes, and finally settles down with Alice to consider writing about his adventures. [2]
An incomplete print of The Thrill Hunter is held at the Library of Congress archive. [3] [4]
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