The New Exploits of Elaine
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The New Exploits of Elaine is a 1915 action
film serial directed by Louis J. Gasnier
, Leopold Wharton
and Theodore Wharton
.
Action film
Action film is a film genre where one or more heroes is thrust into a series of challenges that require physical feats, extended fights and frenetic chases...
film serial directed by Louis J. Gasnier
Louis J. Gasnier
Louis J. Gasnier was a French film director.Born in Paris, Gasnier was working in theatre when Pathé hired him to direct films in the earliest days of cinema. He directed comedian Max Linder in many of his early short comedies...
, Leopold Wharton
Leopold Wharton
Leopold Wharton was an American film director, producer and writer. He directed 37 films between 1911 and 1922, including the 1915 film The New Adventures of J. Rufus Wallingford, which featured Oliver Hardy....
and Theodore Wharton
Theodore Wharton
Theodore Wharton was an American film director, producer and writer. He directed 48 films in the 1910s and 1920s, including the 1915 film The New Adventures of J. Rufus Wallingford, which featured Oliver Hardy....
.
Cast
- Pearl WhitePearl WhitePearl Fay White was an American film actress, the so-called "Stunt Queen" of silent films, most notably in The Perils of Pauline.-Early life:...
as Elaine Dodge - Creighton HaleCreighton HaleCreighton Hale was an Irish-born American movie actor who worked in the silent film era.-Career:While starring in Charles Frohman's Broadway production of Indian Summer, Hale was spotted by a representative of the Pathe Film Company...
as Walter Jameson - Arnold DalyArnold DalyArnold Daly was an American actor, playwright and producer. He was the father of actress and Algonquin Rountable personality Blyth Daly....
as Detective Craig Kennedy - Edwin Arden as Wu Fang. Wu Fang appeared in several Pearl White serials. The name was based on a Chinese diplomat. Wu Ting Fang was a Chinese diplomat in WashingtonWashington, D.C.Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....
and wrote America, through the spectacles of an Oriental diplomat (excerptExcerptAn excerpt is a relatively small sample passage from a longer work, such as a book or article....
ed in The New York TimesThe New York TimesThe New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
, 22 March 1914). This was published less than a year before Arthur B. ReeveArthur B. ReeveArthur Benjamin Reeve was an American mystery writer. He is best known for creating the series character Professor Craig Kennedy, sometimes called "The American Sherlock Holmes," and his Dr Watson-like sidekick Walter Jameson, a newspaper reporter, in eighteen detective novels...
created the villain character. - M.W. Rale as Long Sin. Long Sin, the Yellow PerilYellow PerilYellow Peril was a colour metaphor for race that originated in the late nineteenth century with immigration of Chinese laborers to various Western countries, notably the United States, and later associated with the Japanese during the mid 20th century, due to Japanese military expansion.The term...
character from the first serial, became just an agent of Wu Fang in this serial. - Bessie Wharton as Aunt Josephine
- Gazelle Marche as Innocent Inez
- Ah Ling Foo as a Chinese Heavy
- Howard Cody
Chapter Titles
- The Serpent Sign
- The Cryptic Ring
- The Watching Eye
- The Vengeance of Wu Fang
- The Saving Circles
- Spontaneous Combustion
- The Ear In The Wall
- The Opium Smugglers
- The Tell-Tale Heart
- Shadows of War