A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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	Francis Ford (left). Photograph: Silent Era image collection.

Cast: Francis Ford [Detective Phil Kelly], Mae Gaston [Betty Graham], Rosemary Theby [Priestess Kah], Jerry Ash (Jerome Ash) [Van Berg], Phil Ford [Chick], Elsie Van Name [Mrs. John Graham], Valeria Olivo (Olive Valerie), Hap H. Ward (Hap Ward), Pete Gerald (Peter Gerald), Lionel Bradshaw

[?] Burston Productions or Burston Films, Incorporated? production; distributed on State Rights basis by Silent Mystery Corporation (Hiller & Wilk, Incorporated). / Produced by Louis Burston. Scenario by John B. Clymer, from a screen story by Elsie Van Name. Presented by Louis Burston. / 15 chapters (two reels each): [1] released [?] November? 1918. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The 1918 influenza epidemic shut down production for weeks as Francis Ford, Elsie Van Name, Philip Ford and Lionel Bradshaw (perhaps others) all contracted the virus, which killed Bradshaw. [?] ClasIm-224 p. 44 lists this film as a five-reel feature distributed on State Rights basis by Hiller & Wilk, Incorporated — possibly an edited version of the serial.

Drama.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Crime: Murder - Death: Murder - Egypt - Serials

Listing updated: 27 July 2024.

References: Edmonds-BigU p. 96; Lahue-Continued pp. 64-65, 189, 288 : ClasIm-224 p. 44 : Website-IMDb; Website-SerSq.