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Liberty (serial)

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Duration
  

Language
  
Silent

Country
  
United States


Director
  
Jacques Jaccard Henry MacRae

Release date
  
August 14, 1916 (1916-08-14)

Writer
  
Jacques Jaccard (screenplay), Jacques Jaccard (story), W.B. Pearson (story)

Liberty (also known as Liberty, A Daughter of the USA) is a 1916 American Western film serial directed by Jacques Jaccard and Henry MacRae, and was the first purely Western serial ever made. The film is now presumed to be lost.

Contents

Terrorist attack on lady liberty


Plot

Liberty Horton, an American heiress, is kidnapped by a Mexican rebel and ransomed to fund his rebellion.

Cast

  • Marie Walcamp as Liberty Horton
  • Jack Holt as Captain Rutledge
  • Eddie Polo as Pedro
  • G. Raymond Nye as Pancho Lopez
  • Neal Hart as Captain Winston
  • Bertram Grassby as Manuel Leon
  • Maude Emory as Theresa
  • L. M. Wells as Jose Leon
  • Charles Brinley as Alvarez
  • Tom London as (as Leonard Clapham)
  • Roy Stewart
  • Hazel Buckham

    • Production

    Liberty, a Daughter of the USA was the first purely Western serial, although Western elements were included in earlier serials such as The Perils of Pauline (1914). A print of Liberty was one of the primary footage sources used for the compilation film The Revenge of Pancho Villa (1930–36).

    References

    Liberty (serial) Wikipedia
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    Liberty (serial) IMDb


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