Dynamite Smith
About Dynamite Smith
Gladstone Smith, a frightened young reporter, crosses a killer and runs to Alaska with the killer's wife, who is as afraid of her husband as he is. The murderer follows them north. Smith has to drop the cowardice if either of them is going to live. Charles Ray plays Smith. Bessie Love plays the wife. Wallace Beery plays the husband. Ralph Ince directed.
Cast & crew
More about Dynamite Smith
C. Gardner Sullivan wrote it. Pathé Exchange distributed it in 1924. Running time 70 minutes. Treated as lost until 2023, when an 8mm print with Dutch intertitles turned up.
Themes
Background
A 1924 Pathé drama that sends a coward and a fugitive wife into the north and then sends the threat after them.
Making
The picture was off the survival lists until a small-gauge Dutch print surfaced in 2023.
Preservation
Presumed lost until 2023, when an 8mm print with Dutch intertitles was found.
Notes
- Beery is the pursuer. Ray is the reporter who would rather flee.
- The flight is to Alaska, and the husband makes the same trip.
- The 2023 find is 8mm, with Dutch titles, not a studio 35mm negative.
- Sullivan, a Thomas Ince writer for years, did the script. Ince here is Ralph, the director, not Thomas.
Scenes
- Smith and the killer's wife take the boat north.
- The husband arrives in Alaska and Smith cannot keep running.
