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.[1] It was released as a 10-chapter serial. The film is now considered to be lost.[2]
| The Terrible People | |
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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 |
Release date |
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Running time | 10 episodes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent with English intertitles |
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.[3]
Plot
editAn heiress is threatened by the gang of a criminal who seems to have returned from the dead.[4] 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
edit- 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
editReferences
edit- ^ "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.