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The Golden Web (1926 film)

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The Golden Web
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Directed byWalter Lang
Written byJames Bell Smith
Based onThe Golden Web
by E. Phillips Oppenheim
Produced byRenaud Hoffman
Samuel Sax
StarringLillian Rich
Huntley Gordon
Lawford Davidson
CinematographyRay June
Production
company
Distributed byLumas Film Corporation
Release date
  • September 1, 1926 (1926-09-01)
Running time
64 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

The Golden Web is a 1926 American silent mystery film directed by Walter Lang and starring Lillian Rich, Huntley Gordon and Lawford Davidson. The cast also features Boris Karloff before he established himself as a horror star.[1] It is based on the 1910 novel The Golden Web by the British writer E. Phillips Oppenheim. A previous British film adaptation of the novel was produced in 1920.[2]

Plot

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As described in a film magazine,[3] a man loses the deed to a mine he has purchased, and is blackmailed by the finder. John Rowan, the original owner of the mine offers to secure the deed, but is arrested when the blackmailer is found dead. Rowan's daughter Ruth steals the deed from the office of the District Attorney, and the present owner of the mine marries her to atone for her father’s predicament. The husband captures the blackmailer’s crony, who confesses to the murder. The father is freed and Ruth rescued as she is about to leap from a cliff at the hour of the execution.

Cast

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Preservation

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With no prints of The Golden Web located in any film archives,[4] it is a lost film.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: The Golden Web
  2. ^ Wlaschin p. 96
  3. ^ "New Pictures: The Golden Web". Exhibitors Herald. 25 (09). Chicago, Illinois: Exhibitors Herald Company: 138. May 15, 1926. Retrieved May 24, 2024. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  4. ^ The Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: The Golden Web

Bibliography

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  • Connelly, Robert B. The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2. December Press, 1998.
  • Langman, Larry. American Film Cycles: The Silent Era. Greenwood Publishing, 1998.
  • Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.
  • Wlaschin, Ken. Silent Mystery and Detective Movies: A Comprehensive Filmography. McFarland, 2009.
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