Speed (1925 film)

Speed is a 1925 American silent comedy drama film directed by Edward LeSaint and starring Betty Blythe, Pauline Garon, and Arthur Rankin.[1][2]

Speed
Still from a magazine
Directed byEdward LeSaint
Written byLois Zellner
Based onSpeed
1924 story inSaturday Evening Post
by Grace Sartwell Mason
Produced byBen Verschleiser
StarringBetty Blythe
Pauline Garon
Arthur Rankin
CinematographyKing D. Gray
Orin Jackson
Production
company
Banner Productions
Distributed byHenry Ginsberg Distributing Company
UFA (Germany)
Release date
  • April 26, 1925 (1925-04-26)
Running time
60 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Plot

As described in a film magazine review,[3] because they are called "old fashioned" by their children, Mr. and Mrs. Whipple buy a car, plan a trip out West, and decide to jazz things up some themselves. Their daughter Wiletta accompanies them on the trip, leaving her sheik behind. Out West she meets Nat, who helps in preventing the two parents from being swindled in a deal for a gold mine. There follows a kidnapping, a holdup, and a chase down a mountainside to save Wiletta. At the end, all of them determine to give up modern jazz methods.

Cast

Preservation

A print of Speed is held in the Gosfilmofond film archive in Moscow.[2]

References
  1. Munden p. 753
  2. Progressive Silent Film List: Speed at silentera.com
  3. "New Pictures: Speed", Exhibitors Herald, 21 (13): 49, 20 June 1925, retrieved 9 April 2022 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

Bibliography
  • Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.


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