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Smashing Barriers
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Wikipedia article
'Smashing Barriers' is a lost[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/S/SmashingBarriers1919.html 'Smashing Barriers' at silentera.com] 1919 15-part 1919 American film serial directed by and starring William Duncan. It was produced and distributed by the Vitagraph Company of America.
This serial was condensed down to a 6-reel feature and rereleased by Vitagraph in 1923 under the same title.[http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=12214 The AFI Catalog of Feature Films -- listing for the 1923 rereleased feature film version from the 1919 serial]
Cast
*William Duncan as Dan Stevens
*Edith Johnson as Helen Cole
*Walter Rodgers as Slicker Williams
*George Stanley as John Stevens
*Fred Darnton as Benjamin Cole
*Slim Cole as Long Tom Brown
*William McCall as Henry Marlin
*Joe Ryan as Wirenail Hedges
*Vincente Howard
*Dorothea Wolbert
Chapters
#The Test of Courage
#The Plunge of Death
#The Tree Hut of Torture
#The Deed of a Devil
#The Living Grave
#Downward to Doom
#The Fatal Plight
#The Murder Car
#The Dynamite Tree
#Overpowered
#The Den of Deviltry
#Explosive Bullets
#The Deadfall
#Trapped Like Rats
#The Human Chain (alternate title: "The Final Barrier")
Preservation status
*The complete original chapter serial is lost. An incomplete abridgement of the 1923 feature version survives with a private collector...Library of Congress Catalog
References
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