The Red Circle is a 1915

1915 in film

The year 1915 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* February 8 : D.W Griffith's The Birth of a Nation premieres at Clune's Auditorium Los Angeles and breaks box office and film length records, running at a total length of 3 hrs 10 minutes.* June 18 : The Motion Picture Directors...

 drama

Drama film

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

 film serial directed by Sherwood MacDonald. The film is considered to be lost

Lost film

A lost film is a feature film or short film that is no longer known to exist in studio archives, private collections or public archives such as the Library of Congress, where at least one copy of all American films are deposited and catalogued for copyright reasons...

. The Red Circle was Ruth Roland's first serial role.

Plot summary

The Red Circle is a birthmark, on the hand of the heroine, noticeable only in times of stress and
excitement, which forces her to steal, leading to no end of complications and intrigue.

Cast

• Ruth Roland
  Ruth Roland
  Ruth Roland was an American stage and film actress and film producer.-Early life and career:Born in San Francisco, California, her father managed a theatre and she became a child actress who went on to work in vaudeville...
  
   - June Travers
• Frank Mayo
  Frank Mayo (actor)
  Frank Mayo was an American actor. He appeared in 310 films between 1911 and 1949.He was born in New York, New York and died in Laguna Beach, California from a heart attack...
  
   - Dr. Max Lamar
• Philo McCullough
  Philo McCullough
  Philo McCullough was an American actor. He appeared in 255 films between 1914 and 1969.He was born in San Bernardino, California and died in Burbank, California.-Selected filmography:* Heroes of the West...
  
  
• Gordon Sackville - Chief of Police
• Corinne Grant - Mary, June's Nurse
• Mollie McConnell
  Mollie McConnell
  Mollie McConnell was an American silent film actress. Before her 1913 movie debut, she was a national and international theater performer. In 1914, she signed a contract with Balboa Films and played matronly roles in many of their films...
  
   - Mrs. Travis
• Andrew Arbuckle
  Andrew Arbuckle (actor)
  Andrew Arbuckle was an American stage and film actor. He was the brother of Macklyn Arbuckle and cousin of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle.-Early life and career:...
  
  
• Bruce Smith
• Bert Francis
• Ruth Lackaye
• Myrtle Reeves
• Daniel Gilfether - Circle Jim Barden
• Makoto Inokuchi - The Butler
• Gayne Whitman
  Gayne Whitman
  Albert Gayne Whitman was an American radio and film actor. He appeared in 213 films between 1904 and 1957.He was born in Chicago, Illinois...
  
  - Fred Whitman
• Frank Erlanger
• Edward Peters - Son of Circle