The Scarlet Runner
(1916) United States of America
B&W : Serial / 12 chapters / 24 reels
Directed by Wally Van and William P.S. Earle
Cast: Earle Williams [Christopher Race], Marguerite Blake [Lady Ivy], L. Rogers Lytton [Baron von Hess], Charles Kent [James Race], Dorothy Kelly [Miss Collingwood], Leila Blow [Mrs. Collingwood], Donald Hall [Sir Gordon Race], Lillian Tucker [Mrs. Dauray], William R. Dunn [Fitzgerald], Kalman Matus [Prince Mirco], John Costello [Ambassador Rudovico], Ethel Corcoran [Volda Rudovico], Zena Keefe [Sidney Chester; and Dorothy Herbert], Helen Pillsbury [the mother], Walter McGrail [Morley Chester], Raymond Walburn [John Brown], Betty Howe [the girl], Nellie Anderson [the landlady], Arthur Robinson [Ean Van Courtlandt], Billie Billings [Miss Warren], Julia Swayne Gordon [Madame Du Gueselin], Thomas R. Mills [Tom Astley], Arthur Lehrman [Raoul], Donald Cameron [Maurice Naylor], Gypsy O’Brien [Violet Hardcastle], Herbert Stanley [Fergus O’Neill], John S. Robertson [Paul Western], Grace Valentine [Grace Norwood], Richard Wangermann [Grace Norwood’s uncle], Edith Storey [Dorothy Herbert], Anna Brody (Ann Brody), Hattie De Laro (Hattie Delaro), Josephine Earle, Edward Elkas, Harold Forshay (Harold Foshay), Gordon Gray, William B. Green, Alex Kyle, Garry McGarry, Adolphe Menjou, Templar Saxe, Jean Stuart, Emanuel A. Turner, Wally Van
The Vitagraph Company of America production; distributed by V-L-S-E, Incorporated. / Scenario by George H. Plympton, from a novel by C.N. Williamson and A.M. Williamson. / 12 chapters: [1] “The Car and His Majesty,” released 2 October 1916; [2] “The Nuremberg Watch,” released 9 October 1916; [3] “The Masked Ball,” released 16 October 1916; [4] “The Hidden Prince,” released 23 October 1916; [5] “The Jacobean House,” released 30 October 1916; [6] “The Mysterious Motor Car,” released 6 November 1916; [7] “The Red Whiskered Man,” released 13 November 1916; [8] “The Glove and the Ring,” released 20 November 1916; [9] “The Gold Cigarette Case,” released 27 November 1916; [10] “The Lost Girl,” released 4 December 1916; [11] “The Missing Chapter,” released 11 December 1916; [12] “The Car and the Girl,” released 18 December 1916. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama.
Survival status: The film is presumed lost.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Serials
Listing updated: 28 April 2020.
References: Lahue-Bound p. 82; Lahue-Continued pp. 173, 288; Stedman-Serials p. 48 : Website-IMDb; Website-SerSq.
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