The Tiger's Trail is a 1919

1919 in film

The year 1919 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*February 5 - Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith launch United Artists...

 adventure

Adventure film

Adventure films are a genre of film.Unlike pure, low-budget action films they often use their action scenes preferably to display and explore exotic locations in an energetic way....

 film serial starring 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...

, directed by Robert Ellis

Robert Ellis (actor)

Robert Ellis was an American film actor, screenwriter and film director. He appeared in 166 films between 1913 and 1934...

, 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...

 and Paul Hurst

Paul Hurst (actor)

Paul Causey Hurst was an American film actor and director.-Career:Born in Traver, California, and raised on a ranch, he appeared in hundreds of films during the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. However, he got his start painting scenery as part of the backstage crew during the silent movie era...

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Plot

A cult of Hindu Tiger Worshippers and a gang of Western outlaws outlaws attempt to cheat Belle Boyd out of the valuable mine that she has inherited from her father.

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...
  
   as Belle Boyd
• George Larkin
  George Larkin
  George Larkin was an American film actor of the silent era. He appeared in 153 films between 1910 and 1931.He was born and died in New York, New York.-Selected filmography:* Robin Hood...
  
   as Jack Randall
• Mark Strong
  Mark Strong
  Mark Strong is an English actor, with a body of work in both films and television. He has performed in films as varied as Body of Lies, Syriana, The Young Victoria, Sherlock Holmes, RocknRolla, Stardust, and Kick-Ass...
  
   as Randolph Gordon / "Grim" Gordon
• Harry Moody as Tiger Face
• Fred Kohler
  Fred Kohler
  Fred Kohler was an American actor known for his "heavy" style of character.-Career:Fred Kohler was born in Kansas City, Missouri. As a teen, he began to pursue a career in vaudeville, but worked other jobs to support himself. He lost part of his right hand in a mining accident during this time...
  
   as "Bull" Shotwell
• George Field as Salonga
• Easter Walters as Hilda, the Spy
• Bud Osborne
  Bud Osborne
  Bud Osborne was an American film actor. He appeared in over 600 films and television programs between 1912 and 1963.Osborne was born in Knox County, Texas, and died in Hollywood, California from a heart attack...
  
   as a henchman
• Chet Ryan as a juvenile
• Rose Dione
  Rose Dione
  Rose Dione was a French born actress of the silent era. She appeared in 68 films between 1910 and 1932. She was often billed as Madame Rose or Madame Dion...
  
   as a Dance Hall Queen

Production

This serial, about a Hindu

Hinduism

Hinduism is the predominant and indigenous religious tradition of the Indian Subcontinent. Hinduism is known to its followers as , amongst many other expressions...

 tiger cult and western outlaws, was based on The Long Arm by C. A. Logue. (Silent Era states that the serial was adapted by Gilson Willets from The Long Arm by Arthur B. Reeve

Arthur B. Reeve

Arthur 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...

.)

Real Tiger

Tiger

The tiger is the largest cat species, reaching a total body length of up to and weighing up to . Their most recognizable feature is a pattern of dark vertical stripes on reddish-orange fur with lighter underparts...

s were used in filming. The serial includes the "famous scene" of a human chain formed from the roof of a trains, which enables the criminals to steal a valuable parcel from Ruth's compartment.

Chapter Titles

1. The Tiger Worshippers
2. The Glowing Eyes
3. The Human Chain
4. Danger Signals
5. The Tiger Trap
6. The Secret Assassin
7. The Flaming Waters
8. Danger Ahead
9. The Raging Torrent
10. Bringing In The Law
11. In The Breakers
12. The Two Amazons
13. The False Idol
14. The Mountain Hermit
15. The Tiger Face