Speed (serial)

{{short description|1922 film}} {{Use American English|date=January 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=December 2018}} {{Infobox film | name = Speed | image = Speed poster.jpg | caption = Film poster | director = [[George B. Seitz]] | producer = George B. Seitz | writer = [[Charles Hutchison]]<br>[[Bertram Millhauser]] | starring = Charles Hutchison<br>[[Lucy Fox]] | cinematography = | editing = | distributor = | released = {{Film date|1922|10|22}} | runtime = 15 episodes | country = United States | language = Silent (English [[intertitle]]s) }}

'''''Speed''''' is a 1922 American [[action film|action]] [[film serial]] directed by [[George B. Seitz]].<ref name="silentera">{{cite web |url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/S/Speed1922.html |title=Progressive Silent Film List: Speed |accessdate=February 24, 2008|work=Silent Era}}</ref> The story is a typically convoluted serial plot. Speed Stansbury is heir to a large fortune. A master criminal hires someone to frame Speed for murder and bank robbery. As Speed pursues the man who can prove his innocence to South America, he himself is followed by Lucy, the woman he loves.

==Plot== {{no plot|date=June 2025}}

==Cast== * [[Charles Hutchison]] as Speed Stansbury * [[Lucy Fox]] as Lucy Durant * [[John Webb Dillion]] as Edwin Stansbury * [[Harry Semels]] as Jim Sprague * Cecile Bonnel as Vera Harper * Winifred Verina as Mrs. Sprague * Joe Cuny as Hagerty * Tom Goodwin as J.J. Stansbury * Charles 'Patch' Revada as Pious Pedro * [[R. Henry Grey]]

==Chapter titles== 1. The Getaway 2.Nerve 3.Pious Pedro 4. The Quagmire 5.Fighting Mad 6.Panic 7.Jaws of Danger 8.Caught 9.Hit or Miss 10.Buried Alive 11.Into the Crusher 12.Trimmed 13.Risky Business 14. The Peril Rider 15.Found Guilty

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

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Notes== Rainey, Buck, ''Serials and Series, a World Filmography, 1912-1956, 1999'', McFarland & Co., Inc. Lahue, Kalton C., ''Continued Next Week, A History of the Moving Picture Serial'', 1964, University of Oklahoma Press

==External links== * {{IMDb title|id=0013630|title=Speed}}

[[Category:1922 films]] [[Category:American silent serial films]] [[Category:1922 action films]] [[Category:American black-and-white films]] [[Category:Films directed by George B. Seitz]] [[Category:American silent action films]] [[Category:1922 American films]] [[Category:1922 English-language films]] [[Category:English-language action films]]