Queen of the Northwoods is 1929 American silent Western film serial by Pathé, directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet and Thomas Storey, with a story by George Arthur Gray. Known cast members were Walter Miller, Ethlyne Clair and Frank Lackteen. This serial was silent, had ten episodes and is believed to still exist in an incomplete state (missing a few episodes).[1]
| Queen of the Northwoods | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Spencer Gordon Bennet Thomas Storey |
| Written by | George Arthur Gray |
| Starring | Walter Miller Ethlyne Clair Frank Lackteen |
| Distributed by | Pathé |
Release date |
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Running time | 10 chapters |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | Silent English intertitles |
Plot
editA mysterious masked villain known as the Wolf Devil tries to drive all of the non-native settlers out of Alaska. Walter Miller plays a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer named Inspector Steele. The Wolf Devil kidnaps the heroine, Miss Moreau.
Cast
edit- Walter Miller - Inspector Steele
- Ethlyne Clair - Miss Moreau
- Tom London - Garvin / The Wolf-Devil
- Frank Lackteen - Jacques De Brun
- Edward Cecil - Fergus
- George Magrill - Sergeant Bolt
- Nelson McDowell - Flapjack
- Jean Diamond - Moon River Lady
- Arthur Taylor
- Fred Burns
- Arthur Dewey
The Wolf Devil
editThe villain of the serial is one of film's first werewolves (in the traditional sense of a man masquerading and acting like a wolf rather than the now more common film wolfman). This villain, The Wolf Devil, wears a wolf skin headdress that completely covers his face. The supernatural atmosphere is enhanced by his apparent ability to control a pack of wolves.[2]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Progressive Silent Film List: Queen of the Northwoods". Silent Era. Retrieved February 17, 2008.
- ^ Harmon, Jim; Donald F. Glut (1973). "1. The Girls "Who Is That Girl in the Buzz Saw?"". The Great Movie Serials: Their Sound and Fury. Routledge. p. 9. ISBN 978-0-7130-0097-9.