Silent Era Information*Progressive Silent Film List*Lost Films*People*Theatres
Taylorology*Articles*Home Video*Books*Search
 
Pandora's Box BD
 
Silent Era Home Page  >  PSFL  >  The Menace of the Mute (1915)
 
Progressive Silent Film List
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.
About This Listing

Report Omissions or Errors
in This Listing

 

The Menace of the Mute
(1915) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by Ashley Miller and Arnold Daly

Cast: Arnold Daly [Ashton-Kirk], Sheldon Lewis [David Hume], Louise Rutter [Edyth Vail], William Hartigan [Allen Morris], Charles Laite [Pendleton], Martin Sabine, George Melville

Pathé Frères Films production; distributed by Pathé Exchange, Incorporated [Gold Rooster Plays]. / Produced by Arnold Daly. From the short story “The Menace of the Mute” by John Thomas McIntyre. / © 10 November 1915 by Pathé Frères Films [LU6920]. Released 5 November 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The second film in the “Ashton-Kirk, Investigator” series, preceeded by An Affair of Three Nations (1915) and followed by The House of Fear (1915). Schuchman-Hollywood p. 52 incorrectly lists this film as a serial with the title “Ashton Kirk, Investigator: Menace of the Mute.”

Drama: Mystery.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Crime: Murder - Deaf persons - Death: Murder - Law: Enforcement: Police: Detectives

Listing updated: 21 April 2012.

References: AFI-F1 nn. F1.0030, F1.2057, F1.2905; Schuchman-Hollywood pp. 30, 52, 109.

 
Silent Era Home Page  >  PSFL  >  The Menace of the Mute (1915)
 
Become a Patron of Silent Era

LINKS IN THIS COLUMN
WILL TAKE YOU TO
EXTERNAL WEBSITES

SUPPORT SILENT ERA
USING THESE LINKS
WHEN SHOPPING AT
AMAZON

AmazonUS
AmazonCA
AmazonUK

Cat and the Canary Standard BD

Charley Chase 1927 BD

Capra at Columbia UHD/BD

Little Rascals Vol 1 BD

Floating Weeds BD