Speed (serial) explained

Speed
Director:	George B. Seitz
Producer:	George B. Seitz
Starring:	Charles Hutchison Lucy Fox
Runtime:	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.

Cast

• Charles Hutchison as Speed Stansbury
• Lucy Fox as Lucy Durant
• John Webb Dillion as Edwin Stansbury
• Harry Semels as Jim Sprague
• Cecile Bonnel as Vera Harper
• Winifred Verina as Mrs. Sprague
• Joe Cuny as Hagerty
• Tom Goodwin as J.J. Stansbury
• Charles 'Patch' Revada as Pious Pedro
• R. Henry Grey

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

See also

• List of film serials
• List of film serials by studio

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Progressive Silent Film List: Speed . February 24, 2008. Silent Era.