{{short description|1921 film}} {{Use American English|date=September 2021}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = The Avenging Arrow | image = The Avenging Arrow-1921-episode11-poster.jpg | caption = A poster for episode 11 | director = William Bowman<br />W. S. Van Dyke | writer = Jack Cunningham | story = Ben B. Cohen | based_on = {{Based on|The Honeymoon Quest|Arthur Preston Hankins}} | starring = Ruth Roland<br />Edward Hearn | cinematography = | producer = Ruth Roland Serials<br />Robert Brunton Studios | distributor = Pathé Exchange | released = {{film date|1921|3|13}} | runtime = 15 episodes | country = United States | language = Silent<br />English intertitles }} thumb|A scene from episode 2: "The Enemy Strikes." '''''The Avenging Arrow''''' is a 1921 American silent Western film serial directed by William J. Bowman and W. S. Van Dyke. Its 15 episodes are now considered to be lost.<ref name="silentera">{{cite web |url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/A/AvengingArrow1921.html |title=Progressive Silent Film List: ''The Avenging Arrow'' |access-date=August 19, 2008|work=Silent Era}}</ref>
==Plot== {{no plot|date=February 2024}}
===Episodes=== Fifteen episodes of ''The Avenging Arrow'' were released weekly from March 13 to June 19, 1921:<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Releases for Week of March 13 |author=Staff Writer |date=March 5, 1921 |url=https://archive.org/stream/movpicwor491movi#page/n100 |magazine=Moving Picture World |location=New York |publisher=Chalmers Publishing Company |volume=49 |issue=1 |page=85 |via=Internet Archive}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |title=Week of June 19 |author=Staff Writer |date=August 20, 1921 |url=https://archive.org/stream/movpicwor512movi#page/n297 |magazine=Moving Picture World |location=New York |publisher=Chalmers Publishing Company |volume=51 |issue=8 |page=832}}</ref>
#“The Vow of Mystery” #“The Enemy Strikes” #“The Hands” #“A Life in Jeopardy” #“The Message Stone” #“The Midnight Attack” #“The Double Game” #“The Strange Pact” #“The Auction Block” #“Outwitted” #“Dangerous Waters” #“The House of Treachery” #“On Perilous Grounds” #“Shifting Sands” #“The Toll of the Desert”
==Cast== * Ruth Roland as Anita Delgado * Edward Hearn as Ralph Troy * Virginia Ainsworth as Luiza Traganza * S.E. Jennings as Don Jose Delgado * William Steele as Don Carlos Martinez * Chief "Big Tree" as Modoc * Frank Lackteen as Pablo * James Robert Chandler as The Hermit (as Robert Chandler) * Otto Lederer as Joaquin Ruiz * Vera Sisson as White Faun
==See also== * List of American films of 1921 * List of film serials * List of film serials by studio * List of lost films
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *{{IMDb title|id=0011939|title=The Avenging Arrow}}
{{Pathé serials}} {{W. S. Van Dyke}}
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