{{short description|1916 film}} {{Use American English|date=January 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = The Scarlet Runner | image = The Scarlet Runner.jpg | caption = Ad for the film | director = William P. S. Earle<br>Wally Van | producer = | writer = George H. Plympton<br>A. M. Williamson<br>C. N. Williamson | starring = Earle Williams<br>Marguerite Blake | cinematography = | editing = | distributor = Vitagraph Company of America | released = {{Film date|1916|10|2}} | runtime = 12 episodes | country = United States | language = Silent with English intertitles }}
'''''The Scarlet Runner''''' is a 1916 American drama film serial directed by William P. S. Earle and Wally Van. The film is considered lost.<ref name="silentera">{{cite web |url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/S/ScarletRunner1916.html |title=Progressive Silent Film List: The Scarlet Runner |accessdate=February 18, 2008|work=Silent Era}}</ref>
==Plot== A series of 12 two-reel episodes, each a separate story related to the adventures of Christopher Race and his high-powered automobile, "The Scarlet Runner". Every episode has a different cast, except for the continuing role of Earle Williams.
==Cast== {{Div col|colwidth=25em}} * Earle Williams as Christopher Race * Marguerite Blake as Lady Ivy * L. Rogers Lytton as Baron Von Hess * Charles Kent as James Race * Dorothy Kelly as Miss Collingwood * Leila Blow as Mrs. Collingwood * Donald Hall as Sir Gordon Race * Lillian Tucker as Mrs. Dauray * William R. Dunn as Fitzgerald * Kalman Matus as Prince Mirco * John Costello as Ambassador Rudovico * Ethel Corcoran as Volda Rudovico * Grace Valentine as Grace Norwood * Zena Keefe as Sidney Chester / Dorothy Herbert * Helen Pillsbury as The Mother * Walter McGrail as Morley Chester * Raymond Walburn as John Brown * Gypsy O'Brien as Violet Hardcastle<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vL_eCQAAQBAJ&q=%22gypsy+o%27brien%22&pg=PA210 | title=Serials and Series: A World Filmography, 1912-1956| isbn=9781476604480| last1=Rainey| first1=Buck| date=June 8, 2015| publisher=McFarland}}</ref> * Hattie Delaro (credited as Hattie De Laro) {{Div col end}}
==Chapter titles== thumb|right|'The Gold Cigarette Case' episode poster # ''The Car and His Majesty'' # ''The Nuremberg Watch'' # ''The Masked Ball'' # ''The Hidden Prince'' # ''The Jacobean House'' # ''The Mysterious Motor Car'' # ''The Red Whiskered Man'' # ''The Glove and the Ring'' # ''The Gold Cigarette Case'' # ''The Lost Girl'' # ''The Missing Chapter'' # ''The Car and the Girl''
==See also== * List of film serials * List of film serials by studio
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{commons category}} *{{IMDb title|id=0007303|title=The Scarlet Runner}}
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