Plunder (serial)

{{short description|1923 film}} {{Use American English|date=January 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2017}} {{Infobox film | name = Plunder | image = Plunder (1923) Poster 7.jpg | caption = Episode 7 poster | director = [[George B. Seitz]] | producer = George B. Seitz | writer = [[Bertram Millhauser]] | starring = [[Pearl White]]<br>[[Warren William]] | cinematography = | editing = | distributor = [[Pathé Exchange]] | released = {{Film date|1923|01|28|United States}} | runtime = 15 episodes | country = United States | language = [[Silent film|Silent]] (English [[intertitle]]s) }}

'''''Plunder''''' is a 1923 American [[drama film|drama]] [[film serial]] directed by [[George B. Seitz]]. During the production of this serial, on August 10, 1922, John Stevenson, a stuntman for [[Pearl White]], was killed doing a stunt from a moving bus to an elevated platform.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Stangeland|first1=John|title=Warren William: Magnificent Scoundrel of Pre-Code Hollywood|date=Oct 28, 2010 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=9780786461820|page=54|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VEQwye-THNUC&q=John+Stevenson&pg=PA54}}</ref> The film survives in the [[UCLA Film and Television Archive]]<ref name="silentera">{{cite web |url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/P/Plunder1923.html |title=Progressive Silent Film List: Plunder |access-date=February 24, 2008|work=Silent Era}}</ref> and a trailer is preserved at the [[Library of Congress]].<ref>''Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress'', p. 143 c.1978 by The American Film Institute</ref>

==Cast== * [[Pearl White]] as Pearl Travers * [[Warren William]] as Mr. Jones (credited as Warren Krech) * [[Harry Semels]] as Jud Deering * Tom McIntyre * William Nally * Wally Oettel * Edward J. Pool * Charles 'Patch' Revada

==Chapter titles== # The Bandaged Man # Held By the Enemy # The Hidden Thing # Ruin # To Beat a Knave # Heights of Hazard # Mocked from the Grave # The Human Target # Game Clear Through # Against Time # Spunk # Under the Floor # Swamp of Lost Souls # The Madman # A King's Ransom

==See also== * [[List of film serials]] * [[List of film serials by studio]]

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== {{commons category|Plunder (serial)}} *{{IMDb title|id=0014365|title=Plunder}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20160510110225/http://silenthollywood.com/plunder1923.html Stills] at silenthollywood.com

[[Category:1923 films]] [[Category:1923 drama films]] [[Category:American silent drama films]] [[Category:American silent serial films]] [[Category:American black-and-white films]] [[Category:Films directed by George B. Seitz]] [[Category:Films about treasure hunting]] [[Category:1923 American films]] [[Category:American silent adventure films]]