''The New Exploits of Elaine'' is a 1915 American

action Action may refer to: * Action (narrative), a literary mode * Action fiction, a type of genre fiction * Action game, a genre of video game Film * Action film, a genre of film * ''Action'' (1921 film), a film by John Ford * ''Action'' (1980 fil ...

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directed by

Louis J. Gasnier Louis Joseph Gasnier (September 15, 1875 – February 15, 1963) was a French-American film director, producer, screenwriter and stage actor. A cinema pioneer, Gasnier shepherded the early career of comedian Max Linder, co-directed the enormously ...

Leopold Wharton Leopold Wharton (September 1, 1870 – September 27, 1927) was an American film director, producer and writer. He directed 37 films between 1911 and 1922, including the 1915 film ''The New Adventures of J. Rufus Wallingford'', which featur ...

and Theodore Wharton. It is presumed to be

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Cast

Pearl White Pearl Fay White (March 4, 1889 – August 4, 1938) was an American stage and film actress. She began her career on the stage at the age of six, and later moved on to silent films appearing in a number of popular serials. Dubbed the "Queen of ...

as Elaine Dodge *

Creighton Hale Creighton Hale (born Patrick Fitzgerald; May 24, 1882 – August 9, 1965) was an Irish-American theatre, film, and television actor whose career extended more than a half-century, from the early 1900s to the end of the 1950s. Career Born in Cou ...

as Walter Jameson *

Arnold Daly Arnold Daly (October 22, 1875 – January 13, 1927) was an American actor, playwright, and producer. He was the father of actress and Algonquin Round Table personality Blyth Daly. Biography He was born Peter Christopher Arnold Daly in Broo ...

as Detective Craig Kennedy *

Edwin Arden Edwin Hunter Pendleton Arden (February 4, 1864 – October 2, 1918) was an American actor, theatre manager, and playwright. Biography Arden was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to Mary Berkley Hunter and Arden Richard Smith. After a common-school e ...

as Wu Fang. Wu Fang appeared in several Pearl White serials. The name was based on a Chinese diplomat. Wu Ting Fang was a Chinese diplomat in

Washington Washington commonly refers to: * Washington (state), United States * Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States ** A metonym for the federal government of the United States ** Washington metropolitan area, the metropolitan area centered o ...

and wrote ''America, through the spectacles of an Oriental diplomat'' (excerpted in ''

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'', March 22, 1914). This was published less than a year before Arthur B. Reeve created the villain character. * M.W. Rale as Long Sin. Long Sin, the

Yellow Peril The Yellow Peril (also the Yellow Terror and the Yellow Specter) is a racist, racial color terminology for race, color metaphor that depicts the peoples of East Asia, East and Southeast Asia as an existential danger to the Western world. As a ...

character from the first serial, became just an agent of Wu Fang in this serial. * Bessie Wharton as Aunt Josephine * Gazelle Marche as Innocent Inez * Ah Ling Foo as a Chinese Heavy

Chapter titles

# ''The Serpent Sign'' # ''The Cryptic Ring'' # ''The Watching Eye'' # ''The Vengeance of Wu Fang'' # ''The Saving Circles'' # ''Spontaneous Combustion'' # ''The Ear In The Wall'' # ''The Opium Smugglers'' # ''The Tell-Tale Heart'' # ''Shadows of War''

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* 1915 films 1915 lost films 1910s action films American action films American silent serial films American black-and-white films Films directed by Leopold Wharton Films directed by Louis J. Gasnier Films directed by Theodore Wharton Lost American films Lost action films Pathé Exchange film serials 1910s American films {{1910s-US-film-stub

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