''The Fatal Warning'' is a 1929
mystery silent
film serial directed by
Richard Thorpe
Richard Thorpe (born Rollo Smolt Thorpe; February 24, 1896 – May 1, 1991) was an American film director best known for his long career at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
His obituary called him "a capable and versatile director willing to take on any ass ...
for Mascot. The film is considered to be a
lost film
A lost film is a feature film, feature or short film in which the original negative or copies are not known to exist in any studio archive, private collection, or public archive. Films can be wholly or partially lost for a number of reasons. ...
, with no prints known to exist.
It co-starred
Boris Karloff
William Henry Pratt (23 November 1887 – 2 February 1969), known professionally as Boris Karloff () and occasionally billed as Karloff the Uncanny, was a British actor. His portrayal of Frankenstein's monster in the horror film ''Frankenstei ...
.
Plot
After William Rogers, a bank executive, disappears, he is charged with embezzling money from the bank. But his daughter Dorothy asks her criminologist friend Russell Thorne to help her find her missing father and restore his good name.
Cast
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Helene Costello as Dorothy Rogers
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Ralph Graves as Russell Thorne
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George Periolat as William Rogers
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Phillips Smalley
Wendell Phillips Smalley (August 7, 1865 – May 2, 1939) was an American silent film director and actor.
Biography
Born in Brooklyn, New York (state), New York, he was the grandson of Wendell Phillips; he was the son of George Washburn Smalle ...
as Leonard Taylor
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Boris Karloff
William Henry Pratt (23 November 1887 – 2 February 1969), known professionally as Boris Karloff () and occasionally billed as Karloff the Uncanny, was a British actor. His portrayal of Frankenstein's monster in the horror film ''Frankenstei ...
as Mullins
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Lloyd Whitlock as Norman Brooks
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Syd Crossley as Dawson
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Thomas G. Lingham as John Harman
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Symona Boniface as Marie Jordan
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Martha Mattox as Mrs. Charles Peterson
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Gertrude Astor
See also
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List of lost films
For this list of lost films, a lost film is defined as one of which no part of a print is known to have survived. For films in which any portion of the footage remains (including trailers), see List of incomplete or partially lost films.
Reas ...
References
External links
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1929 films
1929 lost films
1929 mystery films
1920s American films
1920s English-language films
American black-and-white films
American silent serial films
English-language mystery films
Films directed by Richard Thorpe
Films produced by Nat Levine
Lost American mystery films
Lost silent American films
Mascot Pictures film serials
Silent American mystery films
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