The Silent Avenger

Apr 20, 1920

5h 20m

★ 0.0

This is the super-society, million-dollar serial in which Duncan, known as the shadow of the screen, out-gazes a thousand deaths. He toys and juggles with fate; he braves flames, knives, guns, and the lyncher's noose.

Overview

15 chapter adventure serial: 1. The Escape 2. Fighting Back 3. Within the Noose 4. Tearing Through 5. Blotted Out 6. The Hidden Blow 7. Dynamite Doom 8. The Crusher 9. Into the Jaws 10. Blades of Horror 11. Shot Into Space 12. Facing Eternity 13. A Human Pendulum 14. The Lakes of Fire 15. The Final Trump

Genres

Action

Adventure

Production Companies

Vitagraph Company of America

The Silent Avenger Trailers

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Cast

Phil Read

William Duncan

Helen Durham

Edith Johnson

Irving Somers

Jack Richardson

Jack Durham

Ernest Shields

Willis Robards

Francine

Virginia Nightingale

John Durham

Willis S. Smith

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8.0

Rustlers of Red Dog

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Robinson Crusoe

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Crusoe, defying his parents, goes to sea, gets shipwrecked, becomes the sole survivor on a deserted island, and builds a new life by salvaging supplies from the wreck, including a dog and cat, creating a fortified home, and learning to survive through hard work and faith, all while battling fear and isolation before eventually encountering 'Friday' and dealing with the intrusion of civilization.

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The Spy

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6.1

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4.5

The New Adventures of Tarzan

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5.0

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A movie serial in 12 chapters: The famous comic strip character is on a mission to protect a secret tunnel passage between China and India.

6.4

Flash Gordon

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Disaster seems imminent when scientists discover that the planet Mongo is about to crash into Earth. Luckily, heroic young Flash Gordon is on hand to lead an investigative mission into outer space and onto the speedily approaching planet. There, he and his best girl, Dale, who is along for the ride, learn that Ming, the devious ruler of Mongo, has purposely put the planet on a collision course with Earth, and only Flash can stop him.

0.0

The Secret Code

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Feature version of the 1942 American serial film of the same title, prepared for the export market, never seen in any media format in the United States, and apparently a lost film.

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Adventurers Guy Randall and Jack Lowell flee English Army headquarters in India after being caught cheating. They follow their servant, Sukim, to a Hindu festival where they rob the temple's offering count and Randall steals a sacred jewel, despite Sukim's warning of a curse. The priests vow vengeance. Randall escapes to England, becomes a wealthy landowner, and forces an engaged Grace, daughter of impoverished Lord Leverton, to marry him. On his wedding night, the tracking Hindu avengers murder Randall, leaving Grace a widow free to marry her true love, Greyson.

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Perils of Nyoka

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Professor Campbell's expedition into the hills of Libya obtains a papyrus which might reveal the hiding place of the Golden Tablets of Hippocrates, containing lost medical secrets. Also in the region is intrepid Nyoka Gordon, still seeking her father, lost on a previous expedition. She alone can translate the papyrus, which directs our heroes through deadly perils (including the Tunnel of Bubbling Death) into the land of the Tuaregs. Opposing them are Vultura, Queen of the Desert, and her Arab ally Cassib, both greedy for the treasure...

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An Italian spy infiltrates a weapons factory in Germany.

3.0

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Treasure Island

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Cineteca

Jan 20, 2025

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Into the Net

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Madge Clayton, a society girl, mysteriously disappears. The police suspect a master criminal is behind the girl's abduction, but her brother, Bob, and fiancé, Bert Moore, help with the search. They unearth a scheme to kidnap another girl, Natalie Van Cleef, and the evidence takes Bob and Bert to an estate on Long Island.

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Thundering Romance

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5.6

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6.0

Jungle Drums of Africa

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