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Gene Tunney (second from right).
Photograph: Silent Era image collection.
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The Fighting Marine
(1926) United States of America
B&W : Serial / Ten chapters / 20 reels
Directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet (Spencer G. Bennet)
Cast: Gene Tunney [Dick Farrington], [?] Marjorie Day or Marjorie Gay? [Lady Chatfield], Walter Miller [Larry Stuart], Virginia Vance [Ruby], Sherman Ross [Charles Vellard], Anna May Walthall [Mazzie], Wally Oettel [Roger Poole], Jack Anthony [Matt], Mike Donlin, David Dunbar, Joe North (Joseph North), W.J. Allen, Ben Walker, Bert Gardner, Frank Hagney, [?] Joe Bonomo?
Distributed by Pathé Exchange, Incorporated. / From a screen story by Frank Leon Smith. / Ten chapters (two reels each): [1] “The Successful Candidate,” released 12 September 1926; [2] “The Second Attack,” released 19 September 1926; [3] “In the Enemy's Trap,” released 26 September 1926; [4] “The Desperate Foe,” released 3 October 1926; [5] “Entombed,” released 10 October 1926; [6] “The Falling Tower,” released 17 October 1926; [7] “Waylaid,” released 24 October 1926; [8] “Challenged,” released 31 October 1926; [9] “The Signal Shot,” released 7 November 1926; [10] “Fired and Hired,” released 14 November 1926. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The serial was edited to 6997 feet and released in the USA by Pathé Exchange, Incorporated, as a feature film on 24 September 1926. The serial was released in Denmark beginning 22 November 1926.
Drama.
Survival status: The film is presumed lost.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 5 May 2020.
References: Lahue-Continued pp. 251, 284; Stedman-Serials pp. 54-55; Sweeney-Coming p. 94 : ClasIm-204 p. 33 : Website-IMDb; Website-SerSq.
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