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The Trail of the Tiger
(1927-1928) United States of America
B&W : Serial / Ten chapters / 20 reels
Directed by Henry McRae (Henry MacRae)

Cast: Jack Daugherty (Jack Dougherty) [Jack Stewart], Frances Teague [Trixie Hemingway], Jack Mower [Tiger Jordan], John Webb Dillion (John Webb Dillon) [John Hemingway], Charles Murphy [Rube Murphy], William Platt (Billy Platt) [Babs, the dwarf], Jack Richardson [Ned Calvert]

Universal Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Universal Pictures Corporation. / Scenario by Carl Krusada, from a screen story by Courtney Ryley Cooper. / Ten chapters (two reels each): [1] “The Mystic Mountebanks,” released 7 November 1927; [2] “The Trap of Terror,” released 14 November 1927; [3] “The Shaggy Monster,” released 21 November 1927; [4] “The Tiger Strikes,” released 28 November 1927; [5] “Flaming Fury,” released 5 December 1927; [6] “The Tiger’s Lair,” released 12 December 1927; [7] “The Hour of Fear,” released 19 December 1927; [8] “The Flight of Terror,” released 26 December 1927; [9] “Buried Alive,” released 2 January 1928; [10] “The Reckoning,” released 9 January 1928. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The serial was released in the United Kingdom by European Motion Picture Company on 15 March 1928. / Silent film.

Drama.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Serials

Listing updated: 7 October 2017.

References: Lahue-Continued pp. 136-137, 263, 289 : Website-IMDb; Website-SerSq.