| The Eleventh Hour | |
| Director: | Bernard Durning |
| Screenplay: | Louis Sherwin |
| Starring: | Shirley Mason Buck Jones Richard Tucker Alan Hale Sr. Walter McGrail June Elvidge |
| Cinematography: | Don Short |
| Studio: | Fox Film Corporation |
| Distributor: | Fox Film Corporation |
| Runtime: | 70 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | Silent 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]
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]
The film was based on the unpublished and uncopyrighted play The Eleventh Hour by Lincoln J. Carter.[1] [6]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 in filming The Eleventh Hour.[7]