A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2024 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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The Speed Demon
(1925) United States of America
B&W : [?] Five or Six? reels / 5500 feet
Directed by Robert N. Bradbury (Robert North Bradbury)

Cast: Kenneth McDonald [‘Speed’ Sherman], Peggy Montgomery [Enid Warren], B. Wayne Lamont [Joe Blake], Art Manning [Ed Norton], Clark Comstock [Colonel Warren], Jack Pierce [Pickles Rankin], Frank Rice [Colonel Warren’s butler], Barney Oldfield [himself]

Bud Barsky Productions production; distributed on State Rights basis by [?] Bud Barsky Productions? / Produced by [?] Irving J. Barsky? Scenario by Samuel M. Pyke, from a screen story by Samuel M. Pyke. Assistant director, Hal Davitt. Film editor, Della M. King. Intertitles written by Robert Hopkins. / No copyright registration. Released [?] 13 September 1925? / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film received a New York state exhibition license on 25 June 1925.

Drama.

Survival status: Print exists in the Cinematheque Royale de Belgique film archive.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 4 December 2023.

References: FilmYearBook-1926 p. 55 : Website-AFI; Website-ASFFDb.