Screenplay:
Saul J. TurellCast:
Lillian Gish (a.f.), Douglas Fairbanks (a.f.), William S. Hart (a.f.), Buster Keaton (a.f.), Richard Barthelmess (a.f.), Noah Beery (a.f.), Rod La Rocque (a.f.), Marion Mack (a.f.), Pearl White (a.f.) (more)Plots(1)
From the moment the bandits began their getaway in Edwin S. Porter's The Great Train Robbery in 1903, with the posse gathering and riding off in pursuit, filmmakers knew that they were on to something. By the next decade, they'd mastered the technique, and in the 1920's they perfected it to the point where Buster Keaton was building virtually an entire movie, The General, around a multi-part extended pursuit between two trains. The essentials of that movie, along with Lillian Gish's flight across the ice floes in Way Down East and Douglas Fairbanks' pursuit of evil in his first swashbuckler, The Mark Of Zorro make up the most famous parts of this exciting compilation film. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Lillian Gish (a.f.)
USA
Best movies:
The Wind (1928)
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Through the Ages (1916)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Douglas Fairbanks (a.f.)
USA
Best movies:
The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
Robin Hood (1922)
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
William S. Hart (a.f.)
USA
Best movies:
Show People (1928)
Buster Keaton (a.f.)
USA
Best movies:
The General (1926)
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Limelight (1952)
Richard Barthelmess (a.f.)
USA
Best movies:
Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
Way Down East (1920)
Snow White (1916)
Noah Beery (a.f.)
USA
Best movies:
The Mark of Zorro (1920)
Noah's Ark (1928)
She Done Him Wrong (1933)
Rod La Rocque (a.f.)
USA
Best movies:
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
The Ten Commandments (1923)
Meet John Doe (1941)
Marion Mack (a.f.)
USA
Best movies:
The General (1926)
Pearl White (a.f.)
USA
Mack Sennett (a.f.)
Canada
Jetta Goudal
Netherlands
Ruth Roland (a.f.)
USA