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Play Ball (serial)
''Play Ball'' is a 1925 American drama film serial directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet and starring Walter Miller and Allene Ray. The film is now considered to be lost. Another 1925 film, a comedy short starring Chester Conklin and Milburn Morante, also used the title ''Play Ball''. Cast * Walter Miller as Jack Rollins * Allene Ray as Doris Sutton * Harry Semels as Count Segundo * J. Barney Sherry as Thomas W. Sutton * Mary Milnor as Maybelle Pratt * Wally Oettel as Rutger Farnsworth * Franklyn Hanna as Senator Hornell * John McGraw as self * New York Giants baseball team Chapter titles #"To the Rescue" #"The Flaming Float" #"Betrayed" #"The Decoy Wire" #"Face to Face" #"The Showdown" #"A Mission of Hate" #"Double Peril" #"Into Segundo’s Hands" #"A Home Plate Wedding" See also * List of film serials * List of film serials by studio * List of lost films For this list of lost films, a lost film is defined as one of which no part of a print is known to have survived. Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spencer Gordon Bennet
Spencer Gordon Bennet (January 5, 1893 – October 8, 1987) was an American film producer and director. Known as the "King of Serial Directors", he directed more film serials than any other director. Biography Born in Brooklyn, New York, Bennet first entered show business as a stunt man, when he answered a newspaper ad to jump from the Palisades of the Hudson River while wearing a suit for the serial film ''Hurricane Hutch'' (1921). The gig at that time paid $1 per foot he had to fall. He made his directorial debut in 1921's ''Behold the Man'' but made his serial directorial debut in 1925 with ''Sunken Silver''. He would keep making serials, as well as B-Western features, until the very end of the genre, directing the last two serials made in the United States, ''Blazing the Overland Trail'' (1956) and ''Perils of the Wilderness'' (1956). After the serials ended he directed a handful of features, his final directorial credit being 1965's ''The Bounty Killer'', which was also th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |