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  Harry Houdini (center).
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Terror Island
(1920) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by James Cruze

Cast: Houdini (Harry Houdini) [Harry Harper], Jack Brammall [Tom Starkey], Lila Lee [Beverly West], Wilton Taylor [Job Mourdant], Eugene Pallette [Guy Mourdant], Edward Brady [Captain Black], Frank Bonner [Chief Bakaida], Ted E. Duncan (Taylor N. Duncan) [First Officer Murphy], Fred Turner (F.A. Turner) [Mr. West], Rosemary Theby [Stella Mourdant], Bob Rose [Houdini’s stunt double]

Realart Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Famous Players-Lasky Corporation through Paramount Pictures Corporation [A Realart Picture; A Paramount Artcraft Picture]. / Scenario by Walter Woods, from a screen story by Arthur B. Reeve and John W. Grey. Art direction by Wilfred Buckland. Assistant director, Cullen B. Tate. Cinematography by William Marshall. Presented by Jesse L. Lasky. / © 13 March 1920 by Famous Players-Lasky Corporation [LP14920]. Released April 1920. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / One newspaper advertisement cited the film as a “Six-Reel Superfeature”; while Paramount advertisements stated “Not a Serial!”

Drama: Mystery.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.4392.

Survival status: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive [35mm positive].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Inventors - Rescues - Submarines - USA: California: San Francisco

Listing updated: 4 January 2025.

References: Film credits, film viewing : AFI-F1 n. F1.4392; Lahue-Gentlemen pp. 135, 137 : ClasIm-221 p. 51 : Website-IMDb.

Home video: DVD.

 
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