Into the Net
About Into the Net
Madge Clayton, a society girl played by Constance Bennett, disappears. The police suspect a master criminal. Her brother Bob Clayton, played by Jack Mulhall, and her fiancé Bert Moore, played by Bradley Barker, join the search and uncover a plan to kidnap Natalie Van Cleef, played by Edna Murphy, as well. The trail leads them to an estate on Long Island. Across ten chapters they raid a house of missing girls, are ambushed, and close in on a figure called the Emperor.
Cast & crew
More about Into the Net
George B. Seitz directed. Malcolm Strauss produced. Frank Leon Smith wrote the scenario from a story by Richard E. Enright, novelized by Sinclair Gluck. Pathé Exchange released it as a Pathéserial. Ten chapters, two reels each, twenty reels in all. Chapter 1, The Shadow of the Web, opened on 3 August 1924. The last, Into the Toils, opened on 5 October 1924. Working title: Wanted by the Police. Also billed are Frank Lackteen as Dr. Vining, Frances Landau as Mrs. Fawcette, Harry Semels as Ivan Ivanovitch, Tom Goodwin as Inspector Cabot, and Paul Porter as Paul Mannering, the Emperor.
Themes
Making
Seitz shot it as a Pathé chapter play, two reels a week from August into October 1924.
Preservation
Wikipedia reports a print with French intertitles. Silent Era had classed the serial as presumed lost. A file is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- The ten titles are The Shadow of the Web, The Clue, Kidnapped, Hidden Talons, The Raid, The House of the Missing, Ambushed, The Escape, To the Rescue, and Into the Toils.
- Denmark released it as Politiets Net from 29 March 1925. Germany released it in 1925 as Die Mädchenhändler von New York.
- Wikipedia says a print with French intertitles survives. Silent Era lists the serial as presumed lost.
Scenes
- Madge Clayton is gone before Bob and Bert know who took her.
- The search turns up a plan to take Natalie Van Cleef as well.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Into the Net (1924).webm)
