Speed Wild
{{short description|1925 film}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Speed Wild
| image = "Speed Wild" ad from Exhibitor's Trade Review (weekly, May 30, 1925 to August 29, 1925) (page 122 crop).jpg
| caption = Advertisement
| director = Harry Garson
| producer = Harry Garson
|based_on =
| writer = Frank S. Beresford
H.H. Van Loan
| narrator =
| starring = Maurice 'Lefty' Flynn
Ethel Shannon
Frank Elliott
| music =
| cinematography = William H. Tuers
| editing =
| studio = Harry Garson Productions
| distributor = Film Booking Offices of America
| released = {{Film date|1925|05|10}}
| runtime =50 minutes
| country = United States
| language = Silent (English intertitles)
| budget =
| gross =
}}
Speed Wild is a 1925 American silent action film directed by Harry Garson and starring Maurice 'Lefty' Flynn, Ethel Shannon, and Frank Elliott.Munden p. 754[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/S/SpeedWild1925.html Progressive Silent Film List: Speed Wild] at silentera.com
Plot
As described in a film magazine review,{{Citation |title=New Pictures: Speed Wild |journal=Exhibitors Herald |volume=21 |issue=11 |pages=63 |date=6 June 1925 |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibitorsherald21unse/page/1562/mode/1up |access-date=29 March 2022}} {{Source-attribution}} Jack Ames joins the police force after getting a reputation for racing, and beating, motorcycle riding coppers. His fiancée, Mary Bryant, is wooed by Wendell Martin, the brains of a gang of smugglers. Mary's brother Charles is also an involuntary member of the gang. When Mary is thrown in front of a train in an automobile crash, Jack rescues her. He then saves her brother from the vengeance of the smugglers. When he follows the gang on his motorcycle, his machine is thrown off a high cliff into the ocean. Martin kidnaps Mary and puts her on his ship. Jack follows and, with the aid of the whole police force, rescues her.
Cast
{{Cast listing|
- Maurice 'Lefty' Flynn as Jack Ames
- Ethel Shannon as Mary Bryant
- Frank Elliott as Wendell Martin
- Ralph McCullough as Charles Bryant
- Ray Turner as Ulysses
- Fred Burns as Red Dugan
- Charles Clary as Herbert Barron
- Billy Butts as Child
- Doreen Turner as Child
}}
References
{{reflist}}
Bibliography
- Connelly, Robert B. The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2. December Press, 1998.
- Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.
External links
{{commons category|Speed Wild (film)}}
- {{IMDb title|0016383}}
{{Harry Garson}}
Category:American silent feature films
Category:American action films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:Films directed by Harry Garson
Category:Film Booking Offices of America films
Category:1920s English-language films
Category:English-language action films
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