Restored by the George Eastman House in 2001, this 1928 serial was considered a “last hurrah” for the silent-era serial, and brought together some of the biggest names of the era: director J.P. McGowan, actors Francis Ford and Joe Bonomo (a carnival strongman-turned-actor), producer Trem Carr (who would later help found Monogram Pictures), and a slew of silent-era supporting icons such as Ruth Hiatt, Grace Cunard, and more. Chapter names like “The Clutching Claw,” “The Devil’s Dice, “Galloping Fury,” and “The Invisible Hand” offer all one needs to know of the film’s concerns: to promise and deliver as much action and suspense as possible, and move our intrepid hero and heroine from one perilous situation to another. One of the biggest stars of the early silent era and a successful serials director in his own right, Francis Ford was the brother of director John Ford.
The evil and masked "Gargoyle" is sabotaging all of America's industrial plants. It is up to the Spi...
A Secret Service agent seeks his missing brother in Africa, and finds his mission complicated by ivo...
Disaster seems imminent when scientists discover that the planet Mongo is about to crash into Earth....
An American adventure film serial comprised of fifteen episodes of two reels (24 min) each. All cha...
The story of a boy, a dog, and a man. The boy discovers he is heir to a shipping line, and travels...
This serial told the story of the diamond heir loom of the Stanley family.
Criminals steal a radium-powered tank from an inventor. His heiress and a government agent take up t...
Buffalo Bill Cody battles a gang of outlaws secretly headed by an unscrupulous lawyer.
A woman hears of a murder plot through a whispered voice on the telephone.
Famed aviator Bruce Gentry is working with scientist Andrew Benson, setting out to uncover the origi...
Beatrice Fairfax, the original advice-to-the-lovelorn reporter and her friend and not-so-secret admi...
Government agents try to thwart smugglers, while some sort of plot unfolds, about a hidden treasure ...
Mystery and adventure, surrounding a stolen rubber harvest.
The obsessive scientist Dr. Miller is working on a matter-transmitter invention called the Paratron;...
Prior to the United States' involvement in World War II, the masked vigilante Spy Smasher fights Naz...
A young girl journeys to Africa to find her father, an explorer who vanished in the jungle.
The 15 chapter story involves the heroine being protected by a shadow with burning eyes. There's als...
A movie serial in 12 chapters: The famous comic strip character is on a mission to protect a secret...
12 part movie serial where Clyde Beatty encounters obstacles and adventure on his way to rescue his ...