Smashing Barriers
Smashing Barriers is a lost[1] 1919 15-part 1919 American film serial directed by and starring William Duncan. It was produced and distributed by the Vitagraph Company of America.
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Directed by | William Duncan |
Produced by | Vitagraph Company of America |
Written by | C. Graham Baker R. Cecil Smith |
Based on | screen story by Albert E. Smith and Cyrus Townsend Brady |
Starring | William Duncan Edith Johnson |
Distributed by | Vitagraph Company of America |
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Running time | 15 chapters |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
This serial was condensed down to a 6-reel feature and rereleased by Vitagraph in 1923 under the same title.[2]
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Cast
- William Duncan as Dan Stevens
- Edith Johnson as Helen Cole
- Walter Rodgers as Slicker Williams
- George Stanley as John Stevens
- Fred Darnton as Benjamin Cole
- Slim Cole as Long Tom Brown
- William McCall as Henry Marlin
- Joe Ryan as Wirenail Hedges
- Vincente Howard
- Dorothea Wolbert
Chapters
- The Test of Courage
- The Plunge of Death
- The Tree Hut of Torture
- The Deed of a Devil
- The Living Grave
- Downward to Doom
- The Fatal Plight
- The Murder Car
- The Dynamite Tree
- Overpowered
- The Den of Deviltry
- Explosive Bullets
- The Deadfall
- Trapped Like Rats
- The Human Chain (alternate title: "The Final Barrier")
Preservation status
- The complete original chapter serial is lost. An incomplete abridgement of the 1923 feature version survives with a private collector.[3]
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