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Lobby card: Silent Era image collection.
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The Masked Menace
(1927) United States of America
B&W : Serial / Ten chapters / 20 reels
Directed by Arch B. Heath
Cast: Larry Kent [Keats Dodd], Jean Arthur [Faith], Thomas Holding [Carl Phillips], Laura Alberta [Grandma Newton], John F. Hamilton [the half-wit], William Norton Bailey (William Bailey), Gus de Weil, Agnes De Pome, Tom MacLarnie (Thomas McLarnie), William Cavanaugh, Sidney Paxton, Neill Bridges, Tully Nash, Edward Roseman, Raymond Ashley [Jean Arthur’s stunt double]
[?] Pathé Exchange, Incorporated? production; distributed by Pathé Exchange, Incorporated [Pathéserial]. / Scenario by Paul Fairfax Fuller, from the short story “Still Face” by Clarence Budington Kelland. Casting by Gus De Weil. Cinematography by Harry Stradling (Harry Stradling Sr.). / Ten chapters (two reels each): [1] “Against Odds,” released 12 October 1927; [2] “An Unknown Assassin,” released 19 October 1927; [3] “The Enemy Strikes,” released 26 October 1927; [4] “A Half-Wit’s Fury,” released 2 November 1927; [5] “An Attack at Midnight,” released 9 November 1927; [6] “Checkmate,” released 16 November 1927; [7] “By Hook or Crook,” released 23 November 1927; [8] “Still Face Shows His Hand,” released 30 November 1927; [9] “The Last Stand,” released 7 December 1927; [10] “The Menace Unmasked,” released 14 December 1927. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Silent film.
Drama.
Survival status: The film is presumed lost.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Serials
Listing updated: 1 May 2020.
References: Lahue-Continued pp. 260-261, 286 : Website-IMDb; Website-SerSq.
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