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Smashing Barriers
(1919) United States of America
B&W : Serial / 15 chapters
Directed by William Duncan
Cast: William Duncan [Dan Stevens], Edith Johnson [Helen Cole], Walter Rodgers [‘Slicker’ Williams], George Stanley [John Stevens], Fred Darnton [Benjamin Cole], Slim Cole [‘Long’ Tom Brown], William McCall [Henry Marlin], Joe Ryan [‘Wirenail’ Hedges], Vincente Howard, Dorothea Wolbert
The Vitagraph Company of America production; distributed by [?] V-L-S-E, Incorporated, or The Vitagraph Company of America? / Scenario by Graham Baker (C. Graham Baker) and R. Cecil Smith, from a screen story by Albert E. Smith and Cyrus Townsend Brady. Presented by Albert E. Smith. / 15 chapters: [1] “Test of Courage,” released 1 September 1919; [2] “The Plunge of Death,” released 8 September 1919; [3] “The Tree Hut of Torture,” released 15 September 1919; [4] “The Deed of a Devil,” released 22 September 1919; [5] “The Living Grave,” released 29 September 1919; [6] “Downward to Doom,” released 6 October 1919; [7] “The Fatal Plight,” released 13 October 1919; [8] “The Murder Car,” released 20 October 1919; [9] “The Dynamite Tree,” released 27 October 1919; [10] “Overpowered,” released 3 November 1919; [11] “The Den of Deviltry,” released 10 November 1919; [12] “Explosive Bullets,” released 17 November 1919; [13] “The Deadfall,” released 24 November 1919; [14] “Trapped Like Rats,” released 1 December 1919; and [15] [?] “The Human Chain” and/or “The Final Barrier”?, released 8 December 1919. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The serial was edited down to six reels and released in the USA as a feature film by [?] The Vitagraph Company of America? in September 1923.
Drama.
Survival status: The film is presumed lost; one-reel abridgment exists.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Serials
Listing updated: 4 March 2012.
References: Film credits : Lahue-Continued pp. 199, 288 : ClasIm-224 pp. 54, 55 : Website-IMDb; Website-SerSq.
Home video: DVD.
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