A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2024 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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The Flash of Fate
(1918) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by Elmer Clifton

Cast: Herbert Rawlinson [Randolph Shorb], Sally Starr [Mary Freeman], Jack Nelson [Joe Freeman], Dana Ong [Henry Shorb], Madge Kirby [Gertrude Shorb], Willis Marks [Abner Hinman], Charles West [Philadelphia Johnson], George Brooks (L. Frank Baum) [Dave Hinman], Frank MacQuarrie, [?] Mary MacGregor?

The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated, production; distributed by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated. / Produced by Herbert Rawlinson. Scenario by Waldemar Young and W.B. Pearson, from a story by James W. Atchison. Cinematography by Virgil E. Miller. / Released 18 February 1918. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama: Crime.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 26 October 2022.

References: Hirschhorn-Universal p. 30 : Website-IMDb.