A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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The Speed Spook
(1924) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels / 6750 feet
Directed by Charles Hines

Cast: Johnny Hines [‘Blue Streak’ Billings], Faire Binney [Betty West], Edmund Breese [‘Chuck’], Warner Richmond [Jud Skerritt], Frank Losee [Sheriff West], Henry West [Hiram Smith]

East Coast Films, Incorporated, production. / Scenario by Raymond S. Harris, from a screen story by William Wallace Cook. Cinematography by Charles E. Gilson and John Geisel. Intertitles written by Ralph Spence. Presented by C.C. Burr. / © 20 August 1924 by East Coast Films, Incorporated [LP20523]. Released 30 August 1924. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Comedy-Drama.

Survival status: Print exists [16mm reduction positive].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Races: Automobile - Transportation: Automobiles

Listing updated: 4 October 2014.

References: Kerr-Silent p. 290; Lahue-Gentlemen pp. 119, 121; Limbacher-Feature p. 231; Sweeney-Coming p. 73.

Home video: DVD.