The Silent Flyer (1926)
This movie was billed as a thriller with ice boats, dynamite, and a dog that saves the day. The original movie has been lost. It survives as a 90 second trailer. This trailer is also available on "More Treasures of the AFA" without the video game music.
- Date of release
- 1926-01-01
- TMDB
- 10.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 2h 30m
- Genres
- Adventure
- Director
- William James Craft
Casting
- Malcolm McGregor — Lloyd Darrell, posing as Bill Smith
- Louise Lorraine — Helen Corliss
- George B. Williams — John Corliss
- Albert J. Smith — Jack Hutchins
- Anders Randolf — Benjamin Darrell
- Edith Yorke — Mrs. Darrell
- Hughie Mack
- Silver Streak — Silver Streak
Interesting facts
The Silent Flyer is a 1926 10-episode (chapter) American adventure film serial directed by William James Craft. The film serial was sold to Universal Pictures for $75,000 with the resulting funds used in the founding of Mascot Pictures.
Production
Enterprising producer Nat Levine shot the entire The Silent Flyer serial on location and on rented stages, managing to bring all 10 chapters in on a budget of 70,000 dollars. Instead of releasing his first serial on the usual "States Rights basis", Levine sold The Silent Flyer to Universal for 75,000 dollars, the profits going toward establishing Mascot Pictures, a Poverty Row film company that would continue the serial tradition into the "talkie…
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