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The Girl from Frisco
(1916) United States of America
B&W : Serial / [?] 15? chapters / [?] 31? reels
Directed by James W. Horne
Cast: Marin Sais [Barbara Brent], True Boardman (Sr) [Congressman John Wallace], Frank Jonasson [Ace Brent, Barbara’s father], Ronald Bradbury (Robert N. Bradbury) [Jim Bliss; Ace Miller; ‘The Hawk’; Daniel; Dick Dingle; Anson Dukes; and Sing Lee], Edward Clisbee [Lanny; José; John Tisbury; Saint Sam Doolittle; and Pedro], Josephine West [Fanny], Steve Murphy [Siwash], Hart Hoxie (Jack Hoxie) [Santone; and the sheriff], Karl Formes [Black Feather], Barney Furey [Lobez], Jack Hutchinson [Andy], E. Forrest Taylor (Forrest Taylor) [Terry], Jack McDonald [‘Sidewinder’ Steve]
Kalem Company, Incorporated, production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / From screen stories by Robert Welles Ritchie and Frederick R. Bechdolt. Presented by Kalem Company, Incorporated. / 15 chapters (two reels each): [1] “The Fighting Heiress,” released 9 August 1916 (three reels); [?] “The Wolf of Los Alamos”; [?] “The Gun Runners”; [?] “The Poisoned Dart,” released 6 December 1916; [?] “The Oil Field Plot”; [?] “The Dominion of Fernandez”; [?] “The Stain of Chuckawalla”; [?] “The Ore Plunderers”; [?] “A Battle in the Dark”; [?] “The Turquoise Mine Conspiracy”; [?] “On the Brink of War,” released 20 December 1916; [?] “The Homsteaders’ Feud”; [?] “The Yellow Hand”; [?] “The Web of Guilt”; [?] “Border Wolves”; [?] “The Harvest of Gold”; [?] “Mystery of the Brass Bound Chest”; [?] “The Witch of the Dark House”; [?] “The False Prophet”; [?] “Reformation of Dog Hole”; [?] “The Resurrection of Gold Bar”; [?] “The Treasure of Cibola”; [?] “The Son of Cain”; [?] “Tigers Unchained”; [?] “The Fight for Paradise Valley”. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Each chapter was an independent and complete story involving reoccuring characters. [?] A Kalem advertisement notes that Ritchie wrote the first 25 chapters of the series with Bechdolt writing the remainder, which indicates that the series was extended beyond the original announced 15 chapters.
Drama.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Serials
Listing updated: 29 April 2023.
References: Lahue-Bound p. 85 : Website-IMDb.
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