''The Rail Rider '' is a 1916 American
silent drama film
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directed by
Maurice Tourneur Maurice may refer to:
People
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and starring
House Peters
Robert House Peters Sr. (12 March 1880 – 7 December 1967) was a British-born American silent film actor, known to filmgoers of the era as "The Star of a Thousand Emotions".
Biography
Born in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England, Peters bega ...
, Bertram Marburgh, and Henry West. Prints and/or fragments were found in the
Dawson Film Find
The Dawson Film Find (DFF) was the accidental discovery in 1978 of 372 film titles preserved in 533 reels of silent-era nitrate films in the Klondike Gold Rush town of Dawson City, Yukon, Canada. The reels had been buried under an abandoned hoc ...
in 1978.
The film's sets were designed by the
art director
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It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and ...
Ben Carré
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.
Cast
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House Peters
Robert House Peters Sr. (12 March 1880 – 7 December 1967) was a British-born American silent film actor, known to filmgoers of the era as "The Star of a Thousand Emotions".
Biography
Born in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England, Peters bega ...
as Jim Lewis
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Bertram Marburgh
Bertram Marburgh (1875–1956) was an American stage and film actor. Rainey p.67 He appeared as a character actor in around thirty five films between 1915 and 1945.
Selected filmography
* '' After Dark'' (1915)
* '' The Stolen Voice'' (1915)
* ' ...
as 'B,' the enigma of the D & O
* Henry West as Bill Carney
* A. Harrington as Theodore C Barker
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Zena Keefe
Zena Virginia Keefe (June 26, 1896 – November 16, 1977) was an American actress in silent film, active in the 1910s and 1920s.Vazzana, Eugene MichaelSilent film necrology: births and deaths of over 9000 performers, directors, producers, and oth ...
as Mildred Barker
Preservation status
Fragmentary prints of ''The Rail Rider'' survive in the
Library of Congress
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and the Dawson City collection of the
Library and Archives Canada
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.
The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: ''The Rail Rider''
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References
Bibliography
* Waldman, Harry. ''Maurice Tourneur: The Life and Films''. McFarland, 2001.
External links
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1916 films
1916 drama films
Silent American drama films
Films directed by Maurice Tourneur
American silent feature films
1910s English-language films
American black-and-white films
World Film Company films
1910s American films
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