''The Red Viper'' is a 1919 American
silent film drama. It is anti-Communist themed and was produced during the
red scare
A Red Scare is the promotion of a widespread fear of a potential rise of communism, anarchism or other leftist ideologies by a society or state. The term is most often used to refer to two periods in the history of the United States which ar ...
.
Plot
Production
The film's director and producer was
Jacques Tyrol
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, the writer was
Winifred Dunn, and the
cinematographer
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was
Edward Wynard.
The film was produced by
Tyrad Pictures, Inc. The film was distributed by Tyrad Pictures, Inc. and State Rights.
The film was released on September 7, 1919.
The film was an
anti-communist
Anti-communism is Political movement, political and Ideology, ideological opposition to communism. Organized anti-communism developed after the 1917 October Revolution in the Russian Empire, and it reached global dimensions during the Cold War, w ...
film, made during the
First Red Scare.
The film has an entry in the
Library of Congress, along with being listed as a
lost film.
Cast
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Gareth Hughes as David Belkov
*
Ruth Stonehouse as Mary Hogan
*
Jack Gilbert as Dick Grant
*
Irma Harrison as Yolanda Kosloff
*
R. H. Fitzsimmons as Charles Smith
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Alberta Lee
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Selected filmography
* ''The Birth of a Nation'' (1915)
* ''Reggie Mixes I ...
as Mrs. Hogan
*
Alfred Hollingsworth as Pat Hogan
References
1919 films
1919 drama films
1910s American films
Silent American drama films
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