''The Hawk's Trail'' is a 1919 American
crime
In ordinary language, a crime is an unlawful act punishable by a state or other authority. The term ''crime'' does not, in modern criminal law, have any simple and universally accepted definition,Farmer, Lindsay: "Crime, definitions of", in Ca ...
film serial
A serial film, film serial (or just serial), movie serial, or chapter play, is a motion picture form popular during the first half of the 20th century, consisting of a series of short subjects exhibited in consecutive order at one theater, gene ...
directed by
W. S. Van Dyke
Woodbridge Strong Van Dyke II (Woody) (March 21, 1889 – February 5, 1943) was an American film director and writer who made several successful early sound films, including '' Tarzan the Ape Man'' in 1932, ''The Thin Man'' in 1934, ''San Franc ...
. It is considered to be a
lost film
A lost film is a feature
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.
Cast
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King Baggot
William King Baggot (November 7, 1879 – July 11, 1948) was an American actor, film director and screenwriter. He was an internationally famous movie star of the silent film era. The first individually publicized leading man in America ...
as Sheldon Steele / The Hawk
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Grace Darmond
Grace Darmond (born Grace Marie Glionna; November 20, 1893 – October 8, 1963) was a Canadian-American actress.
Early life
Grace Marie Glionna was born in Toronto on November 20, 1893. Her parents were Vincent Baptiste "James" Glionna, an I ...
as Claire Drake
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Rhea Mitchell
Rhea Ginger Mitchell (December 10, 1890 – September 16, 1957) was an American film actress and screenwriter who appeared in over 100 films, mainly during the silent era. A native of Portland, Oregon, Mitchell began her acting career in lo ...
as Jean Drake
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Harry Lorraine as Iron Dugan / Stephen Drake
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Fred Windemere
Fred Windemere (born Fritz Wintermeier, April 15, 1892 –March 18, 1970) was an American film actor, actor and film director of the silent era.Munden p.741
Selected filmography
* ''Three in Exile'' (1925)
* ''With This Ring (1925 film), With Thi ...
as Bob Dugan
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Stanton Heck as Bull Cruze
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George Siegmann
George A. Siegmann (also credited as George Seigmann; February 8, 1882 – June 22, 1928) was an American actor and film director in the silent film era. His work includes roles in notable productions such as ''The Birth of a Nation'' (1915), ' ...
as Quang Goo Hai
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Alfred Hollingsworth
Alfred Hollingsworth was an American actor during the silent film era. He was in dozens of films from 1911 until 1925. According to IMDb he also directed four short films in 1916. '' Hell's Hinges'' has been described as a classic and Hollingswor ...
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Carmen Phillips
Carmen Phillips (born Anna Catherine Phillips; September 15, 1888 – December 14, 1966) was an American actress of the silent era. She appeared in more than 60 films between 1914 and 1926, frequently as a "vamp".
Biography
A native Cali ...
as Mimi
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Nigel De Brulier
Nigel De Brulier (born Francis George Packer; 8 August 1877 – 30 January 1948) was an English stage and film actor who began his career in the United Kingdom before relocating to the United States.
Biography
De Brulier was born in Frenchay, a ...
* Edna Robinson as Tina Torelli
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Carl Stockdale
Carl Stockdale also known as Carlton Stockdale (February 19, 1874 – March 15, 1953) was one of the longest-working Hollywood veteran actors, with a career dating from the early 1910s. He also made the difficult transition from silent fi ...
* William White (credited as Billy White)
* Arthur Belasco
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Leo White
Leo White (November 10, 1882 – September 20, 1948), Leo Weiss, was a German-born British-American film and stage actor who appeared as a character actor in many Charlie Chaplin films.
Biography
Born in Germany, White grew up in England where ...
Chapter titles
#False Faces
#The Superman
#Yellow Shadows
#Stained Hands
#House of Fear
#Room Above
#The Bargain
#The Phantom Melody
#The Lure
#The Swoop
#One Fatal Step
#Tides That Tell
#Face to Face
#The Substitute
#The Showdown
See also
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List of film serials
A list of film serials by year of release.
1910s
1920s
1930s
Films still exist from this point on unless noted otherwise:
1940s
1950s
See also
* Serial (film)
* List of film serials by studio
References
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List of film serials by studio
This is a list of film serials by studio, separated into those released by each of the five major studios, and the remaining minor studios.
The five major studios produced the greater number of serials. Of these the main studios are consider ...
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List of lost films
References
External links
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1919 films
1919 crime films
1919 lost films
American crime films
American silent serial films
American black-and-white films
1910s English-language films
Films directed by W. S. Van Dyke
Lost American films
Lost crime films
1910s American films
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