The Terrible People (serial) explained

The Terrible People
Director:	Spencer Gordon Bennet
Starring:	Allene Ray Walter Miller
Distributor:	Pathé Exchange
Runtime:	10 episodes
Country:	United States
Language:	Silent with English intertitles

The Terrible People is a 1928 American adventure silent film serial directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet, based on the 1926 novel of the same name by Edgar Wallace.^[1] It was released as a 10-chapter serial. The film is now considered to be lost.^[2]

Most of the books of Edgar Wallace have been adapted into films many times over the years in both England in the 1930s, and in Germany in the 1960s in a series known as the crimis. The Terrible People was remade as a German crimi film under the same title in 1960.^[3]

Plot

An heiress is threatened by the gang of a criminal who seems to have returned from the dead.^[4] Clay Shelton was executed for his crimes, but it seems he has returned to life to exact revenge on the people responsible for his death.

Cast

• Allene Ray as Nora Sanders
• Walter Miller as Arnold Long
• Larry Steers as Jack Crayley
• Al Craven as Joshua Monkford (as Allen Craven)
• Alyce McCormick as Alice Cravel
• Wilfrid North as Godley Long
• Frederick Vroom as Clayton Shelton (as Fred Vroom)
• Thomas Holding as Sonny Cravel
• Gilbert Clayton as Krill
• Billy Bletcher as Proody (as William Bletcher)

See also

• List of film serials
• List of film serials by studio
• Films based on works by Edgar Wallace

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Terrible People. gutenberg.net.au.
2. Web site: Progressive Silent Film List: The Terrible People . February 17, 2008. Silent Era.
3. Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press, p. 332. .
4. Book: The People of the River. 9781480412408. Wallace. Edgar. July 2014.