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The Border Wireless
(1918) United States of America
B&W : Five reels / 4353 feet
Directed by William S. Hart

Cast: William S. Hart [Steve Ransom], Wandy Hawley [Elsa Miller], Charles Arling [Herman Brandt], James Mason [Carl Miller], E. von Ritzen [Frederick Schloss], Bertholde Sprotte [Von Helm], Marcia Manon [Esther Meier]

William S. Hart Productions, Incorporated, production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation [Artcraft Pictures]. / Scenario by C. Gardner Sullivan, from a screen story by Howard E. Morton. Production supervised by Thomas H. Ince. Art direction by Thomas A. Brierley. Cinematography by Joe August (Joseph H. August). Intertitles artwork by Irwin J. Martin. Presented by Thomas H. Ince. / © 10 September 1918 by William S. Hart Productions, Incorporated [LP12868]. Released 8 October 1918. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama: Western-Espionage.

Synopsis: Synopses available in AFI-F1 n. F1.0434, and in Koszarski-Hart p. 98.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Espionage: Spies - War: World War I (28 July 1914-11 November 1918)

Listing updated: 3 April 2009.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.0434; Carroll-Matinee p. 110; Koszarski-Hart pp. xvii, 98-100.