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Smashing Barriers (1919)

10m

Running Time

September 1, 1919
Release Date

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Smashing Barriers (1919)

Name: Smashing Barriers
Genre: Adventure, Action
Released: 1919-09-01

10m

Running Time

September 1, 1919
Release Date

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Plot.

When sawmill owner Helen Cole is kidnapped by bandits, it falls on lumberjack Dan Stevens to rescue her, but "Wirenail" Hedges is not willing to give up without a fight. Originally a fifteen-episode serial, all that is known to survive of "Smashing Barriers" today is this single reel abridgment created for the home movie market in 1932.

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Cast & Crew.

William Duncan

Dan Stevens / Producer / Director

Edith Johnson

Helen Cole

Joe Ryan

'Wirenail' Hedges

Walter Rodgers

Slicker Williams

Cyrus Townsend Brady

Story

R. Cecil Smith

Writer

C. Graham Baker

Writer

Albert E. Smith

Story

Slim Cole

Long Tom Brown

William McCall

Henry Marlin

Vincente Howard

Actor

Dorothea Wolbert

Actress

Details.

Release Date
September 1, 1919

Status
Released

Running Time
10m

Genres
Adventure Action

Last updated: 2023-11-15

This Movie Is About.

kidnapping

escape

rescue

Wiki.

Smashing Barriers is a lost 1919 15-part 1919 American film serial directed by and starring William Duncan. It was produced and distributed by the Vitagraph Company of America.

This serial was condensed down to a 6-reel feature and rereleased by Vitagraph in 1923 under the same title.