Liberty (serial)

Liberty
	Film poster
Directed by	Jacques Jaccard; Henry MacRae
Produced by	Jacques Jaccard
Written by	Jacques Jaccard; W.B. Pearson
Starring	Marie Walcamp; Jack Holt
Distributed by	Universal Film Manufacturing Co.
Release date	August 14, 1916;
Running time	20 episodes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)
Budget	$65,000[1]
Box office	over $2 million[1]

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.[2] It is one of the most popular serials of all time.[1]

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).[3] A print of Liberty was one of the primary footage sources used for the compilation film The Revenge of Pancho Villa (1930–36).[4]

References

Wood, Thomas (December 2, 1946). "The Sad State of the Serial". New York Times. p. 51.
"Liberty, A Daughter of the U.S.A." Silent Era: Progressive Silent Film List. Retrieved September 16, 2008.
Harmon, Jim; Donald F. Glut (1973). "12. The Westerns "Who Was That Masked Man!"". The Great Movie Serials: Their Sound and Fury. Routledge. p. 317. ISBN 978-0-7130-0097-9.
Rocha, George C. (December 2002). "La venganza de Pancho Villa (The Vengeance of Pancho Villa): A lost and found border film" (PDF). Journal of Film Preservation. Fédération Internationale des Archives du Film (65): 24–29. ISSN 1609-2694. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 24, 2015. Retrieved September 17, 2014.

External links

Liberty at IMDb
Liberty, a Daughter of the USA at AllMovie

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[new-1] Wood, Thomas (December 2, 1946). "The Sad State of the Serial". New York Times. p. 51.

[2] "Liberty, A Daughter of the U.S.A." Silent Era: Progressive Silent Film List. Retrieved September 16, 2008.

[3] Harmon, Jim; Donald F. Glut (1973). "12. The Westerns "Who Was That Masked Man!"". The Great Movie Serials: Their Sound and Fury. Routledge. p. 317. ISBN 978-0-7130-0097-9.

[4] Rocha, George C. (December 2002). "La venganza de Pancho Villa (The Vengeance of Pancho Villa): A lost and found border film" (PDF). Journal of Film Preservation. Fédération Internationale des Archives du Film (65): 24–29. ISSN 1609-2694. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 24, 2015. Retrieved September 17, 2014.