The Masked Menace

The Masked Menace
Directed by	Arch Heath
Written by	Clarence Budington Kelland
Starring	Larry Kent Jean Arthur
Distributed by	Pathé Exchange
Release date(s)	12 October 1927 (1927-10-12)
Running time	10 episodes
Country	United States
Language	Silent English intertitles

The Masked Menace was a 1927 drama film serial directed by Arch Heath and mostly flimed in Berlin, New Hampshire. It was adapted from the story Still Face by pulp writer Clarence Buddington Kelland and was released in ten chapters. It is now considered to be lost.^[1]

Plot

The mill of an old woman and her ward, Faith Newton (Jean Arthur), is being terrorized by the masked menace of the title known as "Still Face". The women are helped by a man named Keats Dodd (Larry Kent). The masked villain's identity is revealed in the final chapter.

Cast

• Larry Kent - Keats Dodd
• Jean Arthur - Faith Newton
• Thomas Holding - Carl Phillips
• Laura Alberta - Grandma Newton
• John F. Hamilton - The Half-Wit named Job
• William Norton Bailey
• Gus De Weil
• Agnes De Pome
• Thomas McLarnie (as Tom MacLarnie)
• William Cavanaugh
• Sidney Paxton
• Neill Bridges
• Tully Nash
• Edward Roseman

See also

• List of film serials
• List of film serials by studio

References

1. ^ "Progressive Silent Film List: The Masked Menace". Silent Era. http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/H/HawkoftheHills1927.html. Retrieved 2008-02-16. 

External links

• The Masked Menace at the Internet Movie Database