The Scarlet Car (1917)
Paul Revere Forbes, an descendant of Paul Revere, is a teller at Cyrus Peabody's bank. He learns that Cyrus and his son, Ernest, have speculated with $35,000 of the bank's money, and the entire sum has been lost.
- Date of release
- 1917-12-24
- TMDB
- 4.6 / 10 (11)
- Runtime
- 50m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Joseph De Grasse
Casting
- Franklyn Farnum — Billy Winthrop
- Edith Johnson — Beatrice Forbes
- Lon Chaney — Paul Revere Forbes
- Sam De Grasse — Ernest Peabody
- Al W. Filson — Samuel Winthrop
- Howard Crampton — Cyrus Peabody
- William Lloyd — Jim Pettit
- Allan Cavan — Mob Member (uncredited)
- Jack Filson — Phil Hastings (uncredited)
- William Humphrey — Member of Directors' Meeting (uncredited)
- Nelson McDowell — Townsman (uncredited)
- Lon Poff — Constable (uncredited)
Interesting facts
The Scarlet Car is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Joe De Grasse and featuring Lon Chaney, Edith Johnson, and Franklyn Farnum. The film was written by William Parker, based upon the novel The Scarlet Car by Richard Harding Davis, which also served as the basis of a 1923 Universal film of the same name. A print of the 1917 film exists at the Library of Congress, and the movie is available on DVD. Clips from the film were used in the 1995 documentary Lon Chaney: Behind the Mask. A still exists showing Lon Chaney in his own make-up as the protagonist "Paul Revere Forbes".
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