Pearl of the Army

Pearl of the Army is a 1916 American silent film serial directed by Edward José. The Pathé-Astra Film Corp movie was made when many early film studio and film producers in America's first motion picture industry were based in New Jersey's Hudson River towns, particularly Fort Lee.^[1][2][3][4] Prints and/or fragments were found in the Dawson Film Find in 1978.^[5][6]

Pearl of the Army
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Directed by	Edward José
Written by	Guy McConnell
Produced by	Astra Film Corp
Starring	Pearl White Ralph Kellard
Distributed by	Pathé Exchange Astra Films
Release date	December 3, 1916 (1916-12-03)
Running time	15 episodes
Country	United States
Language	Silent with English intertitles

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Cast

• Pearl White as Pearl Date
• Ralph Kellard as Captain Ralph Payne
• Marie Wayne as Bertha Bonn
• Theodore Friebus as Major Brent
• William T. Carleton as Colonel Dare (as W.T. Carleton)

Chapter titles

1. The Traitor
2. Found Guilty
3. The Silent Menace
4. War Clouds
5. Somewhere In Grenada
6. Major Brent's Perfidy
7. For The Stars and Stripes
8. International Diplomacy
9. The Monroe Doctrine
10. The Silent Army
11. A Million Volunteers
12. The Foreign Alliance
13. Modern Buccaneers
14. The Flag Despoiler
15. The Colonel's Orderly

Novelization

A French-language novelization in the form of 10 pamphlets based on the series was published in 1917-1918 by the famous author of the time Marcel Allain, under the general title Le courrier de Washington. Published by La Renaissance du Livre in Paris, in the cycle Collection des Romans-cinéma.^[7]

References

1. Koszarski, Richard (2004). Fort Lee: The Film Town. Rome, Italy: John Libbey Publishing -CIC srl. ISBN 0-86196-653-8.
2. "Studios and Films". Fort Lee Film Commission. Archived from the original on October 20, 2018. Retrieved May 30, 2011.
3. Fort Lee Film Commission (2006). Fort Lee Birthplace of the Motion Picture Industry. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 0-7385-4501-5.
4. "Progressive Silent Film List: Pearl of the Army". Silent Era. Retrieved September 19, 2016.
5. "Lost and Found no. 2 – Dawson City". The Bioscope. August 27, 2007. Retrieved September 19, 2016.
6. "New documentary links Dawson City to Hollywood". Yukon News. October 21, 2016. Retrieved March 3, 2022.
7. "Le courrier de Washington (complet en 10 épisodes)". Archived from the original on November 27, 2022. Retrieved November 27, 2022.

External links

• Pearl of the Army at IMDb