''A Yellow Streak'' is a 1915 American silent

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film directed by

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and starring

Lionel Barrymore Lionel Barrymore (born Lionel Herbert Blyth; April 28, 1878 – November 15, 1954) was an American actor of stage, screen and radio as well as a film director. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in '' A Free Soul'' (1931) ...

, Irene Howley and

Niles Welch Niles Eugene Welch (July 29, 1888 – November 21, 1976) was an American performer on Broadway, and a leading man in a number of silent and early talking motion pictures from the early 1910s through the 1930s. Early life A native of Hartford, ...

.Nevins & Keller, p. 130.

Plot

After a

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is ruined by his wife's lover, a business associated, he thinks of committing suicide off

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but instead heads to a western

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Cast

as Barry Dale * Irene Howley as Mary Austin * Dorothy Gwynne as Virginia Dale *

John Goldsworthy John Goldsworthy (1884–1958) was a British-born stage and film actor. After emigrating to the United States he was active on Broadway appearing in a variety of plays, as well as several musicals.Bordman p.460 During the silent era he appeared ...

as Richard Marvin *

as Tom Austin * R.A. Bresee as Parke Austin *

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as Tobias Rader * William B. Davidson as Jack Rader * Martin Faust as Outlaw * John J. Donough as The Sky Pilot

References

Bibliography

* Langman, Larry. ''A Guide to Silent Westerns''. Greenwood Publishing Group, 1992. * Nevins, Francis M. & Keller, Gary D. ''The Cisco Kid: American Hero, Hispanic Roots''. Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe, 2008.

External links

* 1915 films 1915 Western (genre) films 1910s English-language films Films directed by William Nigh Metro Pictures films Silent American Western (genre) films 1910s American films English-language Western (genre) films {{1910s-US-Western-film-stub