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Directed by | Spencer Gordon Bennet |
Written by | George Arthur Gray Edgar Wallace |
Starring | Allene Ray Walter Miller |
Distributed by | Pathé Exchange |
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Running time | 10 episodes |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent with English intertitles |
The Terrible People is a 1928 American adventure silent film serial directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet, based on the 1926 novel of the same name by Edgar Wallace. It was released as a 10-chapter serial. The film is now considered to be lost.
Most of the books of Edgar Wallace have been adapted into films many times over the years in both England in the 1930s, and in Germany in the 1960s in a series known as the crimis. The Terrible People was remade as a German crimi film under the same title in 1960.
Plot
An heiress is threatened by the gang of a criminal who seems to have returned from the dead. Clay Shelton was executed for his crimes, but it seems he has returned to life to exact revenge on the people responsible for his death.
Cast
- Allene Ray as Nora Sanders
- Walter Miller as Arnold Long
- Larry Steers as Jack Crayley
- Al Craven as Joshua Monkford (as Allen Craven)
- Alyce McCormick as Alice Cravel
- Wilfrid North as Godley Long
- Frederick Vroom as Clayton Shelton (as Fred Vroom)
- Thomas Holding as Sonny Cravel
- Gilbert Clayton as Krill
- Billy Bletcher as Proody (as William Bletcher)
See also
References
- "The Terrible People". gutenberg.net.au.
- "Progressive Silent Film List: The Terrible People". Silent Era. Retrieved February 17, 2008.
- Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press, p. 332. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
- Wallace, Edgar (July 2014). The People of the River. ISBN 9781480412408.
External links
Categories:- 1928 films
- 1928 adventure films
- 1928 lost films
- 1920s American films
- 1920s English-language films
- American silent serial films
- American black-and-white films
- Films directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet
- Lost American adventure films
- Pathé Exchange film serials
- Silent American adventure films
- English-language adventure films