YOUR RATING
Photos
John Halliday
- Skip Cornwall
- (as Jack Halliday)
Henry Van Bousen
- George Washington
- (as Henry Van Bausen)
Edward Roseman
- Colonel Cornwall
- (as Ed Roseman)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
Featured review
Pro Patria....
The two reviews here are both very interesting. The serial ran from 1901-1924 (not 1900-1920) and there is nothing improbable about the idea that the Germans were interested in 1916 in funding a film based upon it but obviously that idea would have been rather torpedoed by the sinking of the Lusitania and the US entry into the war. The German certainly did fund patriotic serials and their was a Senate inquiry after the war with regard to the 1917 serial Patria (encouraging the US to think of Japan rather than Germany as its natural enemy). It is even possible that, following the entry of the US into the war, finance originally intended for The Liberty Boys was diverted to Patria.
However the serial itself was not competed until 1924 and it is entirely logical that plans for a film based upon it should have been revived at that time. The involvement of Tefft Johnson is interesting. Was there a relationship between actor/director Tefft and writer Adrian Johnson who was one of the writers for the eventual 1927 film serialisation? There is another extant episode, The Night Raiders, which appears on Youtube as dated 1924. From the style, it quite clearly belongs to the mid-late twenties and, since it has broadly the same cast as The Blue Rider. is clearly presumably a sixth known episode of the serial and it may well turn out that twelve episodes were made as originally intended.
In The Night Raiders, young Buddy is on the point of death but eventually recovers, death being averted not by the application of leaches but by that "Love which shines in darkest hours", sister Sue is inveigled by the village idiot into the hands of would-be rapist Skip Cornwall but is rescued in the proverbial nick of time while Dale is kidnapped by a treacherous innkeeper but escapes and a spy's attempt to lead the Liberty Boys into an ambush is foiled.
The Blue Rider I have not seen but In the Hands of the Enemy commences with the Battle of Brandywine Creek with Washington in desperate need of reinforcements. Since it is impossible even for a trapper to get through the enemy lines, Sue is sent through the lines, but is kidnapped by a bunch of Indians (confederates of the British) but rescued by Dale and his lieutenant, Bob Estabrook, but not before being manhandled, as usual, this time by the British commander.
This film, unlike the other, has an introduction to the main characters but is unlikely to be the first episode in the serial since Brandywine, although said here to have taken place in 1776, actually took place in 1777. Little Buddy does however get shot at the end of this one, so it would seem a natural predecessor to The Night Raiders.
Of interest in the cast, playing the small part of Red Eagle, an Indian aiding the British, one "Jim Deer", presumably James Young Deer. He also appears as Eagle Eye, the Indian chief, in In the Hands of the Enemy.
It would be nice if all the known parts of this film could be made available on the internet for the edification of the virile, clean, courageous youth of the greatest nation in the world (apparently somewhere called "America", not a nation that exists to my knowledge or has ever existed. Ecuador perhaps or Costa Rica?)
However the serial itself was not competed until 1924 and it is entirely logical that plans for a film based upon it should have been revived at that time. The involvement of Tefft Johnson is interesting. Was there a relationship between actor/director Tefft and writer Adrian Johnson who was one of the writers for the eventual 1927 film serialisation? There is another extant episode, The Night Raiders, which appears on Youtube as dated 1924. From the style, it quite clearly belongs to the mid-late twenties and, since it has broadly the same cast as The Blue Rider. is clearly presumably a sixth known episode of the serial and it may well turn out that twelve episodes were made as originally intended.
In The Night Raiders, young Buddy is on the point of death but eventually recovers, death being averted not by the application of leaches but by that "Love which shines in darkest hours", sister Sue is inveigled by the village idiot into the hands of would-be rapist Skip Cornwall but is rescued in the proverbial nick of time while Dale is kidnapped by a treacherous innkeeper but escapes and a spy's attempt to lead the Liberty Boys into an ambush is foiled.
The Blue Rider I have not seen but In the Hands of the Enemy commences with the Battle of Brandywine Creek with Washington in desperate need of reinforcements. Since it is impossible even for a trapper to get through the enemy lines, Sue is sent through the lines, but is kidnapped by a bunch of Indians (confederates of the British) but rescued by Dale and his lieutenant, Bob Estabrook, but not before being manhandled, as usual, this time by the British commander.
This film, unlike the other, has an introduction to the main characters but is unlikely to be the first episode in the serial since Brandywine, although said here to have taken place in 1776, actually took place in 1777. Little Buddy does however get shot at the end of this one, so it would seem a natural predecessor to The Night Raiders.
Of interest in the cast, playing the small part of Red Eagle, an Indian aiding the British, one "Jim Deer", presumably James Young Deer. He also appears as Eagle Eye, the Indian chief, in In the Hands of the Enemy.
It would be nice if all the known parts of this film could be made available on the internet for the edification of the virile, clean, courageous youth of the greatest nation in the world (apparently somewhere called "America", not a nation that exists to my knowledge or has ever existed. Ecuador perhaps or Costa Rica?)
helpful•11
- kekseksa
- Nov 23, 2016
Details
- Country of origin
- Languages
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
Contribute to this page
Suggest an edit or add missing content