''The Masked Menace'' is a 1927 American

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film serial directed by

Arch Heath Arch Heath (July 15, 1890 – January 7, 1945), also known as A. B. Heath and Arch B. Heath, was an American film director and screenwriter whose career spanned from the era of silent films to the 1940s. He helped pioneer the introduction of the s ...

and mostly filmed in

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. It was

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from the story "Still Face" by

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writer Clarence Budington Kelland and was released in ten chapters. It is now considered to be

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Plot

The mill of an old woman and her ward, Faith Newton ( Jean Arthur), is being terrorized by the masked menace of the title known as "Still Face". The women are helped by a man named Keats Dodd ( Larry Kent). The masked villain's identity is revealed in the final chapter.

Cast

* Larry Kent as Keats Dodd * Jean Arthur as Faith Newton * Thomas Holding as Carl Phillips * Laura Alberta as Grandma Newton *

John F. Hamilton John F. Hamilton (November 7, 1893 – July 11, 1967) was an American-born actor who worked for many years in the theatre but only occasionally on film. He is probably best-remembered as Pops, father of Eva Marie Saint's character, in Elia Kaz ...

as The Half-Wit named Job *

William Norton Bailey William Norton Bailey (born Gardner Warren Reineck; September 26, 1886 – November 8, 1962) was an American actor and director. Personal life William Norton Bailey was born Gardner Warren Reineck on 26 September 1886 in Omaha, Nebraska. His p ...

Edward Roseman Edward Roseman (May 14, 1875 – September 16, 1957), sometimes identified as Edward F. Roseman, was an American actor, who worked primarily during the silent film era. Biography The son of a pharmacist, Roseman was born in Terre Haute, Indi ...

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* 1927 films 1927 drama films 1920s adventure drama films 1927 lost films American silent serial films American black-and-white films American adventure drama films Lost American films Lost drama films Pathé Exchange film serials Films directed by Arch Heath 1920s American films Silent American drama films Silent adventure films {{silent-adventure-film-stub

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