Liberty (serial) explained

Liberty
Director:	Jacques Jaccard Henry MacRae
Producer:	Jacques Jaccard
Starring:	Marie Walcamp Jack Holt
Distributor:	Universal Film Manufacturing Co.
Runtime:	20 episodes
Budget:	$65,000^[1]
Gross:	over $2 million
Country:	United States
Language:	Silent English intertitles

Liberty (also known as Liberty, A Daughter of the USA) is a 1916 American Western film serial directed by Jacques Jaccard and Henry MacRae, and was the first purely Western serial ever made. The film is now presumed to be lost.^[2] It is one of the most popular serials of all time.^[1]

Plot

Liberty Horton, an American heiress, is kidnapped by a Mexican rebel and ransomed to fund his rebellion.

Cast

• Marie Walcamp as Liberty Horton
• Jack Holt as Captain Rutledge
• Eddie Polo as Pedro
• G. Raymond Nye as Pancho Lopez
• Neal Hart as Captain Winston
• Bertram Grassby as Manuel Leon
• Maude Emory as Theresa
• L. M. Wells as Jose Leon
• Charles Brinley as Alvarez
• Tom London as (as Leonard Clapham)
• Roy Stewart
• Hazel Buckham

Production

Liberty, a Daughter of the USA was the first purely Western serial, although Western elements were included in earlier serials such as The Perils of Pauline (1914).^[3] A print of Liberty was one of the primary footage sources used for the compilation film The Revenge of Pancho Villa (1930–36).^[4]

See also

• List of film serials
• List of film serials by studio
• List of lost films

Notes and References

1. News: The Sad State of the Serial . New York Times . Thomas . Wood . December 2, 1946 . 51.
2. Web site: Liberty, A Daughter of the U.S.A. . September 16, 2008 . Silent Era: Progressive Silent Film List .
3. Book: Harmon , Jim . Donald F. Glut . Donald F. Glut . Jim Harmon . The Great Movie Serials: Their Sound and Fury . 1973 . Routledge . 978-0-7130-0097-9 . 317 . 12. The Westerns "Who Was That Masked Man!" .
4. Rocha . George C. . La venganza de Pancho Villa (The Vengeance of Pancho Villa): A lost and found border film . Journal of Film Preservation . 65 . 24–29 . Fédération Internationale des Archives du Film . December 2002 . 1609-2694 . September 17, 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150924012304/http://www.fiafnet.org/pdf/uk/04FIAF65.pdf . September 24, 2015 .