''The Master Key'' is a 1914 American
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
Robert Z. Leonard
Robert Zigler Leonard (October 7, 1889 – August 27, 1968) was an American film director, actor, producer, and screenwriter.
Biography
He was born in Chicago, Illinois. At one time, he was married to silent star Mae Murray with the two formin ...
. It is considered to be
lost
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Geography
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History
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, with only episode 5 of 15 surviving in the
Library of Congress
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.
Cast
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Robert Z. Leonard
Robert Zigler Leonard (October 7, 1889 – August 27, 1968) was an American film director, actor, producer, and screenwriter.
Biography
He was born in Chicago, Illinois. At one time, he was married to silent star Mae Murray with the two formin ...
as John Dore
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Ella Hall
Ella Augusta Hall (March 17, 1896 – September 3, 1981) was an American actress. She appeared in more than 90 films between 1912 and 1933.
Early years
Ella Augusta Hall was born in Hoboken, New Jersey on March 17, 1896. Her family moved t ...
as Ruth Gallon
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Harry Carter as Harry Wilkerson
* Jean Hathaway as Jean Darnell
* Alfred Hickman as Charles Everett
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Wilbur Higby
Wilbur Higby (August 21, 1867 – December 1, 1934) was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in more than 70 films between 1914 and 1934.
Stage
In the mid-1890s, Higby was a member of the stock company of the Grand Opera House ...
as Tom Gallon
* Charles Manley as Tom Kane
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Jack Holt as Donald Faversham
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Jim Corey
James Warren Corey (October 19, 1883 – January 10, 1956) was an American actor. He appeared in more than 300 films between 1914 and 1948. He was born in Nebraska and died in Los Angeles, California. His grave is located at Valhalla Memori ...
as Wah Sing
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Allan Forrest
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Mack V. Wright
Mack V. Wright (March 9, 1894 – August 14, 1965) was an American actor and film director. Active as a director from 1920 to the late 1940s, he also had an extensive career as an assistant director, second-unit director and production man ...
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Rupert Julian
Rupert Julian (born Thomas Percival Hayes; 25 January 1879 – 27 December 1943) was a New Zealand cinema actor, director, writer and producer. During his career, Julian directed 60 films and acted in over 90 films. He is best remembered for di ...
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Cleo Madison
Cleo Madison (born Lulu Bailey; March 26, 1883 – March 11, 1964) was a theatrical and silent film actress, screenwriter, producer, and director who was active in Hollywood during the silent era.
Madison began her career on the stage. ...
* Edward A. Mills
* James Robert Chandler - (as Robert Chandler)
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Marc Robbins
Marc Robbins (January 3, 1868 – April 5, 1931) was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in 78 films between 1914 and 1923. He died in Los Angeles, California.
Morey was from Topeka, Kansas, and he acted with the Morey Stock ...
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1914 films
1914 short films
American silent short films
American black-and-white films
Universal Pictures film serials
Films directed by Robert Z. Leonard
Lost American films
1914 directorial debut films
1910s American films
1914 lost films
1910s English-language films
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