- Liberty (serial)
Infobox Film
name = Liberty
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director =Jacques Jaccard Henry MacRae
producer =Jacques Jaccard
writer =Jacques Jaccard
W.B. Pearson
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starring =Marie Walcamp
Jack Holt
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distributor = Universal Film Manufacturing Co.
released =14 August ,1916
runtime = 20 episodes
country = USA
language = Silent
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imdb_id = 0006917"Liberty" (also known as "Liberty, A Daughter of the USA") is a 1916 Western
film serial directed byJacques Jaccard andHenry MacRae . It was the first purely western serial ever made. The film is now presumed to be lost. [cite web |url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/L/LibertyADaughteroftheU1916.html |title=Liberty, A Daughter of the U.S.A.
accessdate=2008-09-16 |work=Silent Era: Progressive Silent Film List |publisher= |date= ]Plot
Liberty Horton, an American heiress, is kidnapped by a Mexican rebel and ransomed to fund his rebellion.
Cast
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Marie Walcamp - Liberty Horton
* Jack Holt - Captain Rutledge
*Eddie Polo - Pedro
*G. Raymond Nye - Pancho Lopez
*Neal Hart - Captain Winston
*Bertram Grassby - Manuel Leon
* Maude Emory - Theresa
*L. M. Wells - Jose Leon
*Charles Brinley - Alvarez
*Tom London - (as Leonard Clapham)
* Roy Stewart
*Hazel Buckham Production
"Liberty, a Daughter of the USA" was the first purely western serial, although western elements were included in earlier serials such as "The Perils of Pauline" (1914). [cite book
last = Harmon
first = Jim
coauthors=Donald F. Glut
authorlink = Jim Harmon
title = The Great Movie Serials: Their Sound and Fury
origyear = 1973
publisher = Routledge
isbn = 9780713000979
pages = pp. 317
chapter = 12. The Westerns "Who Was That Masked Man!" ]ee also
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List of film serials
*List of film serials by studio References
External links
*imdb title|id=0006917|title=Liberty
*amg title|id=1:269236|title=Liberty, a Daughter of the USA
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