''Speed'' is a 1925 American silent

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directed by

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and starring Betty Blythe,

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, and Arthur Rankin.Progressive Silent Film List: ''Speed''
at silentera.com

Plot

As described in a film magazine review, because they are called "old fashioned" by their children, Mr. and Mrs. Whipple buy a car, plan a trip out West, and decide to

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things up some themselves. Their daughter Wiletta accompanies them on the trip, leaving her sheik behind. Out West she meets Nat, who helps in preventing the two parents from being swindled in a deal for a gold mine. There follows a kidnapping, a holdup, and a chase down a mountainside to save Wiletta. At the end, all of them determine to give up modern jazz methods.

Cast

Preservation

A print of ''Speed'' is held in the

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film archive in Moscow.

References

Bibliography

* Munden, Kenneth White. ''The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1''. University of California Press, 1997.

External links

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