Speed is a 1925 American silent comedy drama film directed by Edward LeSaint and starring Betty Blythe, Pauline Garon, and Arthur Rankin.[1][2]
| Speed | |
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| Directed by | Edward LeSaint |
| Written by | Lois Zellner |
| Based on | Speed 1924 story inSaturday Evening Post by Grace Sartwell Mason |
| Produced by | Ben Verschleiser |
| Starring | Betty Blythe Pauline Garon Arthur Rankin |
| Cinematography | King D. Gray Orin Jackson |
Production company | Banner Productions |
| Distributed by | Henry Ginsberg Distributing Company UFA (Germany) |
Release date |
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Running time | 60 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
Plot
editAs described in a film magazine review,[3] because they are called "old fashioned" by their children, Mr. and Mrs. Whipple buy a car, plan a trip out West, and decide to jazz things up some themselves. Their daughter Wiletta accompanies them on the trip, leaving her sheik behind. Out West she meets Nat, who helps in preventing the two parents from being swindled in a deal for a gold mine. There follows a kidnapping, a holdup, and a chase down a mountainside to save Wiletta. At the end, all of them determine to give up modern jazz methods.
Cast
edit- Betty Blythe as Mary Whipple
- Pauline Garon as Wiletta Whipple
- William V. Mong as Sam Whipple
- Arthur Rankin as Dick Whipple
- Alfred Allen as Nat Armstrong
- Robert Ellis as Nat Armstrong Jr.
- Eddie Phillips as Jack Cartwright
- Fred Becker as Señor Querino
- Stella De Lanti as Señora Querino
Preservation
editA print of Speed is held in the Gosfilmofond film archive in Moscow.[2]
References
edit- ^ Munden p. 753
- ^ a b Progressive Silent Film List: Speed at silentera.com
- ^ "New Pictures: Speed", Exhibitors Herald, 21 (13): 49, 20 June 1925, retrieved 9 April 2022
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
Bibliography
edit- Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.
External links
edit- Speed at IMDb
- Synopsis at AllMovie
- Speed at the TCM Movie Database
- Speed at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
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