Liberty (serial)
1916 film
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::summary 1916 film ::
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Liberty |
| image | 'Liberty'.jpg |
| caption | Film poster |
| director | Jacques Jaccard |
| Henry MacRae | |
| producer | Jacques Jaccard |
| writer | Jacques Jaccard |
| W.B. Pearson | |
| starring | Marie Walcamp |
| Jack Holt | |
| distributor | Universal Film Manufacturing Co. |
| released | |
| runtime | 20 episodes |
| budget | $65,000 |
| gross | over $2 million |
| country | United States |
| language | Silent |
| English intertitles | |
| :: |
| name = Liberty | image = 'Liberty'.jpg | caption = Film poster | director = Jacques Jaccard Henry MacRae | producer = Jacques Jaccard | writer = Jacques Jaccard W.B. Pearson | starring = Marie Walcamp Jack Holt | cinematography = | distributor = Universal Film Manufacturing Co. | released = | runtime = 20 episodes | budget = $65,000 | gross = over $2 million | country = United States | language = Silent English intertitles ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/Liberty_(serial)ad-from,Moving_Picture_Weekly(1915-1920)(page_192_crop).jpg" caption="Movie ad from The Movie Picture Weekly"] ::
Liberty (also known as Liberty, A Daughter of the USA) is a 1916 American Western film serial directed by Jacques Jaccard and Henry MacRae, and was the first purely Western serial ever made. The film is now presumed to be lost. It is one of the most popular serials of all time.
Plot
Liberty Horton, an American heiress, is kidnapped by a Mexican rebel and ransomed to fund his rebellion.
Cast
- Marie Walcamp as Liberty Horton
- Jack Holt as Captain Rutledge
- Eddie Polo as Pedro
- G. Raymond Nye as Pancho Lopez
- Neal Hart as Captain Winston
- Bertram Grassby as Manuel Leon
- Maude Emory as Theresa
- L. M. Wells as Jose Leon
- Charles Brinley as Alvarez
- Tom London as (credited as Leonard Clapham)
- Roy Stewart
- Hazel Buckham
Production
Liberty, a Daughter of the USA was the first purely Western serial, although Western elements were included in earlier serials such as The Perils of Pauline (1914).{{cite book | last = Harmon | first = Jim |author2=Donald F. Glut |author2-link=Donald F. Glut | author-link = Jim Harmon | title = The Great Movie Serials: Their Sound and Fury | year = 1973 | publisher = Routledge | isbn = 978-0-7130-0097-9 |page=317 | chapter = 12. The Westerns "Who Was That Masked Man!" |last=Rocha |first=George C. |title=La venganza de Pancho Villa (The Vengeance of Pancho Villa): A lost and found border film |journal=Journal of Film Preservation |issue=65 |pages=24–29 |publisher=Fédération Internationale des Archives du Film |date=December 2002 |url=http://www.fiafnet.org/pdf/uk/04FIAF65.pdf |issn=1609-2694 |access-date=September 17, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924012304/http://www.fiafnet.org/pdf/uk/04FIAF65.pdf |archive-date=September 24, 2015
References
References
- Wood, Thomas. (December 2, 1946). "The Sad State of the Serial". New York Times.
- "Liberty, A Daughter of the U.S.A.". Silent Era: Progressive Silent Film List.
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